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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:08:08 +0100
From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)
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Hmm ... maybe I found it:

grep -R -l "xxx" /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g'

Does that look okay?  Seems to work in my test.

-- 
Anthony