Linux – How to use find to replace several files of the same name

I think this could do it:

find /home \( -name "*.html" -o -name "*.php" \) -exec sed -i.bak 's/<script.*PaBUTyjaZYg.*script>//g' \{\} \;

From the comment "to delete all files has numbers in thier name and extension .php"

find /home -name "*[0-9]*.php" -exec rm \{\} \;

But first, run it with echo instead of rm, to make sure you don't delete something you don't want to delete.

How about this?

find /home/ -name filename.gif -exec mv -f /home/shared/filename_default.gif {} \;

The -exec flag has find execute a command on every found object. The {} indicates the name of the found file. You then have to terminate the shell command with \;. You could arguably use ln -s to symlink those .gifs. That might be easier if you ever want to change your shared .gif without redoing this sort of find and move.

EDIT Good points by Denilson below. Despite the question involving mv, it'll only work once, before the source file is gone. (moved) His advice on the echo command is a good way to double check what's going to happen, before it does.

find /home/ -name filename.gif -exec cp -p /home/shared/filename_default.gif {} \;


--Christopher Karel