How to find and replace files contents that match a pattern? Command line

Suppose we have a folder named Project. I would like find each file in the folder that contains the pattern &$ at the function call.

For example should replace:

AnyFunction(&$arg);

with

AnyFunction(&$arg);

Where AnyFunction is an unknown function that matches the pattern.

I need this to try to solve this php problem.

How can I perform this?

Hi I know sed and awk has options to give range of line numbers, but I need to replace pattern in specific lines Something like sed -e '1s,14s,26s/pattern/new pattern/' file name Can somebody help me in this....

I am fine with see/awk/perl Thank you in advance

I'm trying to replace the contents of a github repository with the contents of a folder. I've tried git push, but it doesn't seem to do anything unless I add each of the files individually using the command line. Is there any command that I can use to replace the contents of the repository with the folder's contents?

My repository is here: https://github.com/jarble/downloadedModules

hi I am trying to use SED to replace the line matching a pattern using the command

sed 'pattern c\ new line ' <file1 >file 2

I got two questions

1. how do I insert a blank space at the beginning of new line?

2. how do I use this command to execute multiple command using the -e options (if possible)? as I want to replace multiple lines in a single file.

Thanks Robert

HI Folks,

I'm looking for a solution for this issue.

I want to find the Pattern 0[0-9]/ and replace it with [0-9]/. I'm just removing the leading zero.

I'm on Solaris 10 and I have tested the following with ksh(88), bash(3.00) and zsh(4.2.1).

The following code doesn't yield any result:

function foo { echo "Hello World" }

find somedir -exec foo \;

The find does match several files (as shown by replacing -exec ...

Hi , I want to print the nth and n+1 lines from a file once it gets a pattern match. For eg:

aaa bbb ccc ddd gh jjjj

If I find a match for bbb then I need to print bbb as well as 3rd and 4th line from the match.. Please help..Is it possible to get a command using sed :)

Hi everyone, I am new to shell scripting, and would appreciate your help on following problem.

I need to search a file for a pattern, then get the number of each line that matches the given pattern. Then I need to search those specific line numbers from the first file in a second file and print the entire lines.

I tried with grep -n 'pattern' from the first file, which gives me:

21: pat

I'm trying to find all files whose name matches certain C++ file extensions but exclude certain directories matching a pattern with this:

find /home/palchan/code -name "*.[CcHh]" -o -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.hpp" -a !