On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:55:24AM -0700, Chris wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem trying to figure out how to properly use 'sed' to > do a global search and replace on a character string within ALL files in a > directory and all its subdirectories. The one-file-at-a-time method works fine, > but obviously this needs to be looped to traverse all files and all > subdirectories... > > This is what I've tried: > > sed -e 's/old_string/new_string/g' foo1.txt > foo2.txt > > and it works fine. How can I loop it automatically through all > file/subdirectories, though? You should be able to use something like: find -type f -exec ... or find -type f | xargs -n 1 ... or find -type f | xargs -n 1 replace old_string new_string -- The latter will do an inplace replacement. [root@pe400 foo]# find -type f |xargs -n1 replace foostuff oldstuff -- ./tmp/c converted ./a converted ./b converted -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
