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

[markzero]

> 	find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \
> 	    xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
> 
> When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print
> the matched lines.  Only the name of the files that *do* match.  Then,
> once you have a list of files that really do match with 'foo' as a
> pattern, you can xargs sed on the list to substitute whatever you want :-)
> 

Egh, I forgot about -l. There's me piping things into the bit bucket.

*shuffles off into the shadows*

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