MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Chris Geldenhuis > <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: > >> How about: >> >> find <startdir> -exec sed "s/10.5.1.10/127.128.1.10/" \{\} \; >> >> > > First, the '\' characters are unnecessary and confusing, except the > one that precedes the semi-colon. > > Second, that won't work. Sed does not perform on files in place - its > output is sent to stdout unless it is redirected, and you can't > redirect it back to the original file. To do something this way, > you'd need a script that replaced the input file and used 'sed' to > generate the new one (and then the script would have to rename it). > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Apologies I should have included the -i switch for sed to modify file in place. ChrisG