One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

markzero mark at darklogik.org
Thu Jan 27 22:36:36 PST 2005


> Hmm ... maybe I found it:
> 
> grep -R -l "xxx" /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g'
> 
> Does that look okay?  Seems to work in my test.
> 
> -- 
> Anthony
> 

Looks good!

Mark

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