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Date:      Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:17:09 -0600
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        antenneX <antennex@swbell.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Find & Replace string
Message-ID:  <20041209171709.GE54558@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <019101c4de0e$dbdeb2d0$0200000a@SAGEAME>
References:  <019101c4de0e$dbdeb2d0$0200000a@SAGEAME>

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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:48:06AM -0600, antenneX wrote:
> Help on commands/script needed.
> 
> In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to
> interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" with
> "newone.011"
> 
> What's the best way to do this?
> 
find, xargs, and sed are your friends

-- 
Regards,
Doug 



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