search site and replace a string on a big site.

[carlf]

I have a site with MANY (over 30,000) directories with 15 php pages in each.  I need to search the whole site and replace the string  <--    with    <?--  .          Any suggestions? 

 

I can do it on my local PC, but I have spent over 50 hours uploading directories and do not want to start over, if I can help it.

[joshgarrod]

The only thing I can think of to do is to use DreamWeaver's extended search and replace tool.

[trq]

Not tested, but this bash script (assuming your on Linux) should go close. Run it from the root of the site.

 

for f in $(ls -r *.php) ; do sed -e -i 's/<--/<?--/' "$f" ; done

[LemonInflux]

You could also write a str_replace script in PHP?

 

Can't think of it off the top of my head, but you'd need a recursive function to list the directory (recursive because you might have directories within directories), then foreach file open and str_replace.