On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov wrote:
Mad Unix wrote:
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' {} ;
Mad Unix,
find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i -e 's/old/new/g' {} ;
find /dir -name "*.html" | xargs sed -i -e 's/old/new/g'