On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to do a fairly complex search and replace across an entire site's > files. > > Find files ending in certain extensions (over 1,700 files) > Exclude files in certain directories > Search contents of matching files for a certain pattern. If found, rewrite > the file replacing the pattern.. > Preserve the file modification date on modified files.
Heh- if I didn't know you, I'd say it sounds sketchy: 1) Back-date records. 2) Get caught in massive money-laundering scheme. 3) Profit!!! ;-) Something wrong with my meme... Anyway: > While I was able to do most of this on the command line in Linux (find, > grep, sed), preserving the modification date on the files didn't appear to > be an option. You can stat the file to get the mdate, and then use touch at the end to re-set it. > (Also it removed write permission on the files... Easily fixed, but just > odd.) Definitely weird. You checked your current umask? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
