Linux shell bulk edit using SED editor
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Jiltin 17 December, 2008 925 views
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Question:
I generally use Perl for this
ex.
perl -e ’s/pattern/replace/g’ -p -i <filename>
I did something like this..
find . -type f -exec perl -e ’s/pattern/replace/g’ -p -i {} \;
I want to do this with “sed”
but what I get is the output being printed on the screen..
I can do
sed -e ’s/pattern/replace/g’ < input > output
but in my case of “find”, i dont want to create a bunch of output files, rather the editing to take place in the same file..
Any ideas?
Answer
grep -il pattern *‘ xargs sed -i ‘s/pattern/replace/g‘
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