Find & Replace Script in Bash

[b34k3r]

Hi,

Im looking for assistance to create a script to find and replace files. Probably best if I give you the background

Our server uses a specific application which stores user data, each user data account (a folder on the server) has a file called 'Profile.xml' this file gets updated and replaced about every 30 mins similar to the fashion logrotate works i.e. Profile.xml.1 Profile.xml.2 -> .10

What we experience is that if the application crashes unexpectedly while it is doing its user profile refresh task we end up with sometimes a few hundred Profile.xml files which end up 0kb(should be around 4kb) , and our server see's these as corrupted profiles and will not see them. Our fix is to go back thru and rename the Profile.xml.1 to be Profile.xml (or sometimes up to Profile.xml.5 to Profile.xml)

We want a script we can manually run to automate this process

The server tree is

/mnt/array1/username/db/Profile.xml
/mnt/array2/username/db/Profile.xml

etc
etc


What we have so far is a script which finds the affected files


find /mnt/ -maxdepth 4 -name Profile.xml -size -1k

This will display a list of affected profiles, and we can append it to a text file with >>output.txt on the end.

ive investigated a few options using cp, mv, or sed and none seem to achieve this easily

perhaps some kind of script that uses a if statement?

like

if 'pattern' in 'location' equals '0kb' then 'cp' Profile.xml.1 Profile.xml

sorry my scripting is not so good, can anyone make a suggestion?



any help appreciated

[zgrw]

maybe you could try like this

ALLFILES=`find /mnt/ -maxdepth 4 -name Profile.xml -size -1k`

while READ FILE; do

   cp $FILE".1" $FILE

done < $ALLFILES

this is not so good but it is goot to be an example

[aihaike]

here is my script, hope it helps:

#! /bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 3 ]
then
echo "Usage - $0 file target replacement"
exit 1
fi

sed -e "s/$2/$3/g" $1 > $1__new

echo "$1__new Done"

On my machine I have a pretty good utility called replace.
Take a look to the Linux man page.

[b34k3r]

maybe you could try like this

ALLFILES=`find /mnt/ -maxdepth 4 -name Profile.xml -size -1k`

while READ FILE; do

   cp $FILE".1" $FILE

done < $ALLFILES

this is not so good but it is goot to be an example

Thanks

Doesnt appear to work with ambiguous redirects

./profilefix: line 9: $ALLFILES: ambiguous redirect

[nmset]

This assumes that Profile.xml.1 is not empty. If necessary, loop over Profile.xml.x, test for size of Profile.xml.x before restoring.

ALLFILES=$(find /mnt/ -maxdepth 4 -name "Profile.xml" -size -1k)

for f in $ALLFILES
do
 cp -f "$f.1" $f
done