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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:00:21 +0100
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
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Cc: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Mass find/replace...
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:52:02PM +0000, Vincent Hoffman typed:
> Marc Coyles wrote:
> >
> > I need to do a find / replace throughout the entire of the
> > /home/horbury/public_html directory...
> > I've tried 'find /home/Horbury/ -type f | xargs grep -l base64_decode'
> > to get a list of the files that require the operation performing, but it
> > comes up with an error (xargs: unterminated quote) after a few
> > results...
> >   
> try using
> 
> find /home/Horbury/ -type f -print0| xargs -0 grep -l base64_decode
> (not certain it'll fix it but good practice anyway)

Or just:

grep -r base64_decode /home/Horbury

Ruben