1 import fileinput, glob, string, sys, os
   2 from os.path import join
   3 # replace a string in multiple files
   4 #filesearch.py
   5 
   6 if len(sys.argv) < 2:
   7     print "usage: %s search_text replace_text directory" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
   8     sys.exit(0)
   9 
  10 stext = sys.argv[1]
  11 rtext = sys.argv[2]
  12 if len(sys.argv) ==4:
  13     path = join(sys.argv[3],"*")
  14 else:
  15     path = "*"
  16 
  17 print "finding: " + stext + " replacing with: " + rtext + " in: " + path
  18 
  19 files = glob.glob(path)
  20 for line in fileinput.input(files,inplace=1):
  21   lineno = 0
  22   lineno = string.find(line, stext)
  23   if lineno >0:
  24         line =line.replace(stext, rtext)
  25 
  26   sys.stdout.write(line)