Script to replace word in text files

[bang_dba]

Hi,

Can somebody help me with a shell script to do the following.


It should segreagate binary files from text files in a folder and it should replace a word in all the text files.

Say for eg., it should replace NewYork with NY

tHX

[syd05]

To replace text in file
sed -i 's/old_text/new_text/g file_name

e.g.

sed -i 's/New York/NY/g' test_file

Hopefully this would answer half your question

--Syd

[secondmouse]

To test if a file is a text file, you can use command file, for example,
$ file test.txt
test.txt: ASCII text

Based on that, you can write your script like this:

find . -type f | while read afile; do [ -n "`file $afile|grep text`" ]  && sed -i 's/old_text/new_text/g' $afile; done