global_replace.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
## Natural Language Toolkit: substitute a pattern with a replacement in every file
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2014 NLTK Project
# Author: Edward Loper <edloper@gmail.com>
#         Steven Bird <stevenbird1@gmail.com>
# URL: <http://nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT

# NB Should work on all platforms, http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/os-file-dir.html

import os, stat, sys

def update(file, pattern, replacement, verbose=False):
    if verbose:
        print("Updating:", file)

    # make sure we can write the file
    old_perm = os.stat(file)[0]
    if not os.access(file, os.W_OK):
        os.chmod(file, old_perm | stat.S_IWRITE)

    # write the file
    s = open(file, 'rb').read()
    t = s.replace(pattern, replacement)
    out = open(file, 'wb')
    out.write(t)
    out.close()

    # restore permissions
    os.chmod(file, old_perm)

    return s != t

if __name__ == '__main__':

    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        exit("Usage: %s <pattern> <replacement>" % sys.argv[0])

    pattern = sys.argv[1]
    replacement = sys.argv[2]
    count = 0

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
        if not ('/.git' in root or '/.tox' in root):
            for file in files:
                path = os.path.join(root, file)
                if update(path, pattern, replacement):
                    print("Updated:", path)
                    count += 1

    print("Updated %d files" % count)