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#!/bin/sh
# $0 oldString newString file1 .. fileN
#
if [ $# -lt 3 ]
then
echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <oldString> <newString> <file1> [.. fileN]"
echo ""
echo "Replaces all occurrences of oldString by newString in files."
echo "(replacement for sed -i on systems that don't support it)"
exit 1
fi
oldString="$1"
newString="$2"
shift 2
for f
do
if grep "$oldString" "$f" >/dev/null
then
cp "$f" "${f}_bak"
sed -e "s@$oldString@$newString@g" "${f}_bak" > "$f"
rm -f "${f}_bak"
#else
# echo "String $oldString not present in $f"
fi
done
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