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I need to replace one line in a ton of . json files (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm updating foundry to a version 11 and it broke an ass ton of my assets cause they're all "verified version 10"

So all I have to do is change that number, they're just maps so no need to update anything else, but I have like 400+ files to convert all in individual folders.

Please tell me there's an easy way to do this. (I'm on Linux obviously)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

for file in $(find . -type f -iname '*.json'); do
  sed -i 's/"verified":"10"/"verified":"11"/' $file;
done

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Find can actually do the sed itself if you don't want to use a subshell and a shell loop.

find . -type f -iname '*.json' -exec sed -i 's/"verified":"10"/"verified":"11"/' '{}' ';'

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-print0 | xargs -0 sed -i to get a single sed process working across multiple files.

Add a -P 8 to xargs to get 8 parallel processes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Today I learned that xargs supports parallelization natively! That's gonna make some of my scripts much simpler

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Change the ';' to a '+' for even more efficiency (no need to fork+exec a sed process per file, sed can take multiple files)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

And

In the off chance the files are not under git or some other VCS, might be a good idea to add the -b option to backup