[SOLVED] Replace word in files with random words from txt using sed

Issue

I have over 500 site and i want to replace a specific word in all of them with random words from a text file.

Folders structure

www
- site1
- - idex.html
- site2
- - index.html
-site3
- - index.html

Word name: Dashemd

Txt file content one world per line, like this:

Hemd.txt:
Blue
Red
Pink
Green
More …

So i need replace word dashemd in index.html of all folders with list of words in hemd.txt file randomly.

Could you please help me?

I tried to replace with static word but i couldn’t do this with random words from txt file

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/dashemd/newworld/g' {} \;

Solution

To replace each repetitive 'dashemd' words:

find ./ -type f -name '*.html' -exec perl -i -MFile::Slurp -pe '
    my @words = split /\n/, read_file("Hemd.txt");
    s/dashemd/$words[rand(@words)]/g;
' -- {} +

You need File::Slurp module, libfile-slurp-perl Debian package. A must have.
Can also be installed via cpan -i File::Slurp

Answered By - Gilles Quénot

Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)