find replace text in file with Phing

Question

Does anyone know how to find and replace text inside a file with Phing?

Answer 1

The simplest way to achieve this using 'traditional' tools would be sed:

sed -i 's/old/new/g'  myfile.txt

And if it is ant-based then this should help: http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/replace.html

The simplest form would be .

And if you really need it, you could run external tools with ant as documented at http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/exec.html, which means that among other things you could, for example, call sed from ant with something like: