Anonymize source code for blind review paper submission with sed

anonymize.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Anonymization of source code for blind review paper submission
# using sed to replace words with XXX. It also removes the .git 
# directory in the anonymized project to avoid exposing any 
# sensitive information about the author(s). 
#
# Usage: anonymize.sh /path/to/project words_to_anonymize.txt
# words_to_anonymize.txt contains a word in each line
#
# Author: Marios Papachristou

PROJECT=$1
ANON_FILE=$2
ANON_NAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`
ANON_WORDS=`cat $ANON_FILE`

echo "Copying $PROJECT to $ANON_NAME" &&
cp -r $PROJECT $ANON_NAME &&

for repl in $ANON_WORDS; do
    find "$ANON_NAME" -type f -print0 |
    xargs -0 sed -ri "s/$repl/XXX/g"
done

rm -rf $ANON_NAME/.git && 
tar -zcvf $ANON_NAME.tar.gz $ANON_NAME && 
rm -rf $ANON_NAME