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In kind of a follow up to my previous post on using find and sed to search and replace multiple files, I found out something else.

I needed to find and replace something in every file, except for any files which had ".svn" in them. After struggling for a few fruitless minutes with -regex, I stumbled upon this example in the manual page:

find /sbin /usr/sbin -executable \! -readable -print

   Search for files which are executable but not readable.

The \! allows us to invert the tests after it. Perfect! All we need to do is use -regex to do our excluding:

find . -type f \! -regex ".*\.svn.*"

And we can now search and replace in all files except those that have ".svn" in them:

find . -type f \! -regex ".*\.svn.*" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "s/foo/bar/"

Neat. Note that, again, -regex is a GNU find only construct.

I've released Templum v0.4.0

Templum is an extremely lightweight, simple yet powerful and fast templating engine for PHP. It re-uses the power of PHP itself for rendering templates, but provides additional features making it easier to write templating code. Rendering templates using Templum is very fast; it approximates native PHP rendering speed for include() statements.

This release features:

• Some small bug fixes
• Documentation updates
• The ability to include other templates in a template

Download instructions here.

I always kept a small Python script around for searching and replacing in Linux. Turns out that GNU sed has an inline edit mode which I didn't know about:

       -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]

              edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)

This makes searching and replacing in files as simple as:

find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "s/foo/bar/"

This replaces all occurences of "foo" with "bar" in all the .txt files in or below the current directory.

Unfortunately, -i appears to be a GNU extension, so it won't work on *BSD or Solaris, probably.

I have a laptop that travels with me to work as well as being used at home. I have a number of network CIFS mounts that I like to have available when I am at home, so I have them set to "auto" in /etc/fstab. [...] The problem is that when I shift locations, I need proper handling of those network mounts.

Handling network mounts on a very mobile laptop.