Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:44:46 +0100 From: "Norbert Koch" <NKoch@demig.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: AW: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?) Message-ID: <000a01c503c6$57c58ea0$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG> In-Reply-To: <1878149195.20050126164325@wanadoo.fr>
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Well, shell lines may be quite long ;-) Do you mean something like this sed -Ee 's/search/replace/g' -i .BAK `find . -name '*.c' -type f` > 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.
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