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To find and replace string patterns within specified files in a folder list provided

• This script works on the folders as specified in the folders_data.txt

Script usage Input flags

• [-f] Regex pattern for string to find
• [-r] Replace pattern for found string
• [-p] To only print the files found by the [-f] regex pattern, without replacing found string with the [-r] string specified
• [-b] To specify the base directory to run this script on; default would be: /mnt/c/Users/gohja/Desktop
• [-s] To specify the sub directory; default would be:
• [-h] prints help message

user@linux:sys-tools-bash/file_search_replace$ ./fsr.sh -<flags>

To take note:

• For the [-b] flag, single or double quotes should be omitted when using absolute path, to prevent Bash from reading it as a string literal

For example:

user@linux:sys-tools-bash/file_search_replace$ ls ~/example_folder
... results
... 
...

user@linux:sys-tools-bash/file_search_replace$ ./fsr.sh -<other_relevant_flags> -b '~/example_folder'
failed to open file ...: No such file or directory

user@linux:sys-tools-bash/file_search_replace$ ./fsr.sh -<other_relevant_flags> -b ~/example_folder
... desired results
...
...