Find and Repace File

[loh32]

Hi

I'm new to linux and linux command. I have sites that been hacked and need to overwrite some files that been modified by hacker.

How can I find files "index.php" in a subfolders of \home and replace with 'index.php' file in the root ? Much appreciate.


Thank you.

Loh

[ghostdog74]

use the find command. check the man page for more

find /home/ -type d -exec cp "/root/index.html" "{}" \;

[loh32]

Will this command overwrite all index.html files in the /home subfolders?

"/root/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/index.html"
"/root/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/sub2/index.html"

[Dave-Oregon]

Hi,

For locating giles I use "locate". Run "updatedb" first, that will update your database of files, then use locate as follows:
"locate filename"
That will give you a list of all files in the entire file system with a matching name.

Dave

[loh32]

After reading some tutorial, I think this should work.

What I'm trying to do is copy index file from source to subfolders to overwrite the existing files.
"/home/source/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/index.html"
"/home/source/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/sub2/index.html"

Do I miss anything?

find /home/dest -type f -name "index.html" -exec cp /home/source/index.html {} \;

[Dave-Oregon]

Hi,

I'm not qualified to check that, sorry... I would use "cp "source" "destination". That should overwrite. Be sure to make a backup of the original files you want to save... I am as new at this as you are...

Dave

[lomcevak]

After reading some tutorial, I think this should work.

What I'm trying to do is copy index file from source to subfolders to overwrite the existing files.
"/home/source/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/index.html"
"/home/source/index.html" copy to "/home/sub1/sub2/index.html"

Do I miss anything?

find /home/dest -type f -name "index.html" -exec cp /home/source/index.html {} \;

Look right to me. The thing that I sometimes do to verify I have it right is run it with 'echo' before the command so you can see what will be executed when you actually do run it.

find /home/dest -type f -name "index.html" -exec echo cp /home/source/index.html {} \;