[RESOLVED] Best practice for search and replace

amax

Hi all, I would love some advice on the best way to do a search and replace script on my web server.
Basically, I want to search for all instances of the <body> tag and replace it with a php include. Normally, on my localhost, I would use a standalone tool to do this then re-upload, but I have hundreds of pages I want to do this across and dont want to download them all, run the tool, then re-upload as I know this is wrong.

Is the best practice for doing this simply to write a php script that loops through the directories I specify or should I be using a shell script

dagon

hosting on windows on linux?

if the latter:

dir your in:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name “*.php” -type f -exec sed -i ’s/FIND/REPLACE/’ {} \

Please, test on one file before applying anything globally.

amax

excellent, thanks dagon, that worked a treat.