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How can you search and replace text in multiple files on an FTP server? Basically I need to change the Google Analytics information on a bunch of plain old HTML pages and I'm wondering if there is a way to do it without having to download all of the files, do the search and replace locally and then FTP them back. | |||||
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You may be able to do this with putty if you have telnet access to the server as well as ftp. Then, depending on if you are on a linux or windows server, you'd use the appropriate command line text editor to modify the files. | |||
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As the comment says, ftp doesn't allow this. You probably really want the 'download all, replace, upload back'. The best I can think of is an editor that understands ftp. Behind the scenes, it's downloading the file, editing it locally, and then uploading, but maybe this 'invisible background ftp' is what you want. I don't know if any do multiple files though. There are individual programs that can do this, and I think any true KDE editor (e.g. kate) can do this through KIOSlaves. | |||
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Windows can map a ftp site to a drive letter, at least in XP, Linux has curlftpfs, which can mount a ftp site. Either options is really downloading and updating in background after any file is edited. Not the ideal solution. I'd personally write a script to do the updates. However, if it's only to be done once, use what ever might work. | |||
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