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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: how do I get sed to search sundirs?
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> 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

Use ls -R | xargs sed [options].

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 Ben

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