These are a few commands I use in situations where I can’t use Eclipse for refactoring my code, you can use them by replacing from and to with the names you want.
No need to remind you to take backups to prevent irreversible loss of data.
Rename files and folders
find . ! -path . -name '*' -exec bash -c 'echo $0 ${0/from/to}' {} \;Rename variables
find . -type f -print | xargs sed -i 's/from/to/g'Rename variables in bulk
find . -type f -print | xargs sed -i 's/from/to/g;s/foo/bar/g;s/FOO/BAR/g'
Maybe using sublime text can be a good refactoring tool instant of Eclipse.
Yes, you can get away with your IDE search/replace, PHPStorm/Rubymine/Webstorm and like have a great refactoring tool… Yet, nothing beats the speed and dangerousness of the command line.
Thanks! Just started using sed for refactorings.
One thing to note: careful not to changes files in your source control private folders. i.e. .svn in my case.