Creation of mass phrase search for website domain - replace

Question

I need to replace a single text phrase across my entire website domain with another one. What is the best way to do a mass search/ replace?

Answer 1

If you can do it file-by-file, then you could use a simple Perl one-liner:
perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/gi' filename.txt
If you are on a UNIX system with a shell, you can combine this with find to search and replace text on files in subdirectoies:
find /dir/to/files -iname 'foo.*' -exec perl ... {}\;
where ... is the above perl command.

Answer 2

I use KEDIT to do this every day. I have a script I wrote called TooMany.kex which allows me to edit a list of files across computers and networks. The only other way I know how to do it is using a shell script - you already have that.
* TooMany.kex - perform commands on files using a directory
* (this is designed to issue edit commands to too many files for the ring buffer)
* Multiple commands are separated by a semicolon ";"
*
* eg. TooMany c\one\two\**;c\two\three\**;file
* commands:
* 1. kedit "dirfileid.1()" (nodefext noprof'
* 2. c\one\two\**
* 3. c\two\three\**
* 4. file
*
parse arg CmdStr
if ftype.1() \= 'DIR' then do
'alert /The File Type Must Be "DIR"./ title /TooMany/'
exit
end
'nomsg less /</|/>/'
if rc = 0 then do
if nbscope.1() = 0 then do
'alert /No files found/ title /TooMany/'
exit
end
end
'top'
* give user something to look at while macro is running
'extract /nbfile/fileid'
* the number of files can change depending on the setting SCOPE/DISPLAY or ALL
size = nbscope.1()
if scope.1() = "ALL" then size = size.1()
nfiles = size
'msg Processing' size 'files.'
'refresh'
* save the directory file name
dir_fileid = fileid.1()
do nfiles - 1
* if less than 3K ISA free, leave early so user has some to work with
if memory.3() < 3 then do
'alert $TooMany aborting. ISA nearly full. You Forgot To File.$ title $TooMany$'
'qquit'
exit
end
'down'
'refresh'
'kedit "'dirfileid.1()'" (nodefext noprof'
if rc \= 0 then do
'alert $TooMany aborting. KEDIT rc='rc'$ title $TooMany$'
exit
end
Call ExecuteCommands
* edit file # 1 in the ring
'kedit "'fileid.1'" (noprof'
*'refresh'
end
* quit out of dir.dir and edit the last file
'next'
fid = dirfileid.1()
** 'qquit'
'kedit "'fid'" (nodefext noprof'
Call ExecuteCommands
'msg TooMany:' nfiles 'file(s) processed'
exit
ExecuteCommands:
* special skip files - don't edit the directory file
if dir_fileid = fileid.1() then return
* Execute commands separated by ";"
istart = 1
do forever
if pos(";",CmdStr,istart) = 0 then do
command substr(CmdStr,istart,length(CmdStr))
return
end
else do
iend = pos(";",CmdStr,istart)
command substr(CmdStr,istart,iend - istart)
istart = iend + 1
if istart > length(CmdStr) then return
end
end
return