Migrate url tags to django 1.5

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I'm trying to migrate an old django application to django 1.5, There are 745 urls in different html files as this way: ``` {% url url_name %} ``` If I'm not wrong, this was deprecated and can't be used anymore from django 1.5 (as said here), and I have to transform all of them into: ``` {% url 'url_name' %} ``` Any idea to do this without going crazy? Maybe, some kind of script, I dont know... I can't imagine a way to do it with replace in path. I'm probably missing something obvious.

Accepted Answer

NOTE: This command is destructive. Use version control or backup your templates directory before running it.

You can use sed. From your template directory (or directories) run

```
sed -i -r -e "s#\{% url ([a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]+)#\{% url '\1'#g" *
```

The expression matches `{% url [view name]`, so arguments provided to the url template tag will be unaffected/unchanged.

To run it recursively,

```
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -r -e "s#\{% url ([a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]+)#\{% url '\1'#g"
```

This sed command assumes your view names only contain alphanumerics, colons, dashes, periods and underscores - no other special characters. Now supports namespaced views.

Tested against the tags in this Django 1.4 url template tag Gist

Migrate url tags to django 1.5

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