Shell script which finds and replaces all occurrences of given characters in files from the current directory.

sed-find-replace-current-directory.sh

#!/bin/bash

current_name=$1
new_name=$2

files=`grep -irl $current_name`
num_files=`grep -irl $current_name | wc -l`

echo "found $num_files file(s) with import name $current_name"

for ffile in $files; do
  sed -i 's@'"$current_name"'@'"$new_name"'@g' $ffile;
  echo "renamed in file $ffile";
done

echo "finished renaming."