I want to change multiple different strings across all files in a folder to one new string.
When the string in the text files (within a same directory) is like this:
"url/1.png""url/2.png""url/3.png"I would need to point them all to a single PNG, i.e., "url/static.png", so all three files have the same URL inside pointing to the same PNG.
How can I do that?
you can use the command find and sed for this. make sure you are in the folder that you want to replace files.
find . -name '*.*' -print|xargs sed -i "s/\"url\/1.png\"/\"url\/static.png\"/g"
sed -i 's/image[0-9]*\.png/static.png/g' * but your answer was close enough! Thank you!!!bash script:#!/bin/bash
# for each file with extension .json in current directory
for currFile in *.json; do
# extract files ordinal from from current filename
filesOrdinal=$(echo "@currFile"| grep -o "[[:digit:]]\+")
# use files ordinal to identify string and replace it in current file
sed -i -r 's|url/'"$filesOrdinal".png'|url/static.png|' $currFile
done
