https://github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace

🚀 Search & replace URLs in WordPress SQL files.
https://github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace

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🚀 Search & replace URLs in WordPress SQL files.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace
• Owner: Automattic
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-10-13T15:09:08.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: trunk
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-21T04:03:39.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-08T16:39:26.846Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: golang, text-processing, wordpress
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://wpvip.com/2018/03/28/data-sync-on-vip-go/
• Size: 61.5 KB
• Stars: 85
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Go Search Replace

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Search & replace URLs in WordPress SQL files.

```

cat example-from.com.sql | search-replace example-from.com example-to.com > example-to.com.sql

```

## Overview

Migrating WordPress databases often requires replacing domain names. This is a

complex operation because WordPress stores PHP serialized data, which encodes

string lengths. The common method uses PHP to unserialize the data, do the

search/replace, and then re-serialize the data before writing it back to the

database. Here we replace strings in the SQL file and then fix the string

lengths.

## Considerations

Replacing strings in a SQL file can be dangerous. We have to be careful not to

modify the structure of the file in a way that would corrupt the file. For this

reason, we're limiting the search domain to roughly include characters that can

be used in domain names. Since the most common usage for search-replace is

changing domain names or switching http: to https:, this is an easy way to avoid

otherwise complex issues.

## Installation

### From Official Releases

To install on macOS:

```

wget https://github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace/releases/latest/download/go-search-replace_darwin_arm64.gz

gunzip go-search-replace_darwin_arm64.gz

chmod +x go-search-replace_darwin_arm64

mv go-search-replace_darwin_arm64 /usr/local/bin/go-search-replace

go-search-replace --version

```

### From Source

To install from source, this package requires [Go](https://golang.org/).

Note the changes you need to make to your PATH and that you have to either restart your terminal or `source` your shell rc file.

You need to install Gox which you can install with

`go install github.com/mitchellh/gox@latest`

Once that's installed you can install this tool with the following command:

`go install github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace@latest`

Go is set up by convention, not configuration so your files likely live in a directory like: /Users/user/go/src/github.com/Automattic/go-search-replace

Nagivage to that directory and run

`make`

`go-search-replace` will be ready for you to use. Once built you won't have to complete any of the above steps again.