Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:55:05 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?) Message-ID: <20050126165505.06d2b3d4.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <1878149195.20050126164325@wanadoo.fr> References: <1878149195.20050126164325@wanadoo.fr>
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--Signature=_Wed__26_Jan_2005_16_55_05_+0100_Bk1J8V0aRUmswsoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 --Signature=_Wed__26_Jan_2005_16_55_05_+0100_Bk1J8V0aRUmswsoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB971cnLctrNyFFPERAv0AAKCz5nE8Xtv4AkPV+uzW6ZyOQ3WrUQCghdqe A2DAKtznew3rZH0suiTDiA4= =PI8M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Wed__26_Jan_2005_16_55_05_+0100_Bk1J8V0aRUmswsoC--
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