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I have ~750 .php files in the same directory that contain the line

include("path/to/file.php");

I would like to change this line in every file to

require_once("path/to/file.php");

What would be an efficient method to do so? So far I have tried the following Sed command with no luck: 

sed 's#include("path/to/file.php");#require_once("path/to/file.php");#' *.php
Gordonium
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  • Your command looks correct, but you need to add `-i` option to sed in order to change files in place. – jimmij Feb 23 '15 at 23:32

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Try this:

find /path/to/the/directory -type f -exec sed -i 's/include\(.*\)/require_once\1/' {} +

This will find all the files in the given directory and replace the lines "include("path/to/file.php");" of each file to "require_once("path/to/file.php");".

heemayl
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