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From: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: how do I get sed to search sundirs?
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:26:32 +1000 (EST)
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I have a little sed script that will search through all files in a
directory, replacing one phrase with another, and writing it back.
How do I get it to step down through all the sub-directories as well?
ta
bob
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