Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:56:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?) Message-ID: <1098984237.20050128065616@wanadoo.fr>
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My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't recall who suggested it): find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything. This reset the last modification dates for every file on my site, which wasn't much fun. Is there another command I could put between find and xargs that would filter only the names of files containing the string? (grep would do it, but grep outputs the lines found to stdout, so that won't do.) -- Anthony
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