Need help with search/replace using grep/sed

Megan posted this at 15:45 — 1st November 2010.

Joined: Jun 1999

Hello,

I have another grep problem! This time i'm trying to search/replace an image file name throughout multiple files recursively. I've gotten this far:

grep -l "littlecampaignlogo" 2009/*/*.html | xargs sed -i 's/littlecampaignlogo.gif/littlecampaignlogo2009.gif'

The problem is what to do with the . in the file name? Sed is returning an error.

Thanks for any help!!

P.S. It would be great if someone could write an article on some of these commands for A Padded Cell!

Greg K posted this at 21:16 — 1st November 2010.

Joined: Nov 2003

I think you just need to escape the . with backslash.

's/littlecampaignlogo\.gif/littlecampaignlogo2009\.gif'

Megan posted this at 15:14 — 2nd November 2010.

Joined: Jun 1999

Thanks, Greg. If I do this:

grep -l "littlecampaignlogo" 2009/*/*.html | xargs sed -i 's/littlecampaignlogo\.gif/littlecampaignlogo2009\.gif'

It gives me the error "sed: -e expression #1, char 53: unterminated `s' command"

Megan posted this at 16:26 — 2nd November 2010.

Joined: Jun 1999

Stupid error, just needed a closing slash on the sed command:

grep -l "littlecampaignlogo" 2009/*/*.html | xargs sed -i 's/littlecampaignlogo\.gif/littlecampaignlogo2009\.gif/'