> 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. > > Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Try this. Global search and replace, with backup: # find . -type f | xargs sed -i.bak "s/oldtext/newtext/g" -- Kids can get a free PlayStation 2! http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0104/ps2.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
