> From: "Mad Unix" <madunix@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> i need your feedback about this command, it should find a
> string in
> multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a
> different
> string...
>
> find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \;
>
> Thx.
Even if you get your sed command right, that won't do in-place replacement, because if you use sed, the result has to be saved to a different file and you mv that file to overwrite your original file.
Perl's in-place edit helps in your case:
find /dir -name "*.html" -exec perl -pi -e 's/old/new/g' {} \;
Yong Huang
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