From d57890ffa8238484fea6daff946bc4d4a0f991ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeroen Baten <jeroen@jeroenbaten.nl>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:47:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] A script to change strings in the whole source tree. Use with
 care!

---
 scripts/change-string.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/change-string.sh

diff --git a/scripts/change-string.sh b/scripts/change-string.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5f7bf8f71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/change-string.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# author: J. Baten
+# date: 2014-03-21
+
+echo "Script to search for a string, find files containing it, and asks they can be changed"
+
+read -p "Enter string to search for : " inputstring
+find . -type f \( ! -iname "*.class" \) -exec grep -H "$inputstring" {} \;
+echo "Done".
+read -p "Do you want to replace all these strings (y/n) : " answer
+if [[ ${answer,,} = 'y' ]]
+then
+  read -p "Enter replacement string : " newstring
+  find .  -type f \( ! -iname "*.class" \) -exec grep -l "$inputstring" {} \; | xargs sed -i -e "s/${inputstring}/${newstring}/g"
+  echo "Done".
+fi