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Recursively find and replace a string

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by manojit Oct 10, 2001 last reply Dec 21, 2001

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I want to find a regexp say "abc" in alll file sin the directory "dir" and all its subdirectory and replace them with "xyz"

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The regexp should be:

s/abc/xyz/g

But you'll have to work a loop out goes through each file in "dir" (except "." and ".." - and what about files of type "d", i.e., subdirectories?).

I really do not want to write a full shell script I want a one line solution someting like
find . -print |xargs grep "abc" | sed...

How about:

find dir -type f -print -exec sed 's/abc/xyz/g' {} \;

May work !

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