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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:55:05 +0100
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:43:25 +0100
Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing
> every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of
> files (potentially including all subdirectories as well).  I think it
> used sed or awk.  Now I can't find it.  The examples on the Web are all
> multiline scripts or programs, but I'm sure I saw a way to do it all on
> just one line.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do this?

How about something like this (sh style)...

for i in `find . -type f`; do sed -i -e 's/string1/string2/g' $i; done


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Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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