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sebastian_bergmann on 01/23/08


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Replace string in multiple files

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  1. sed -i 's#old#new#gi' **/*.suffix

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Posted By: jkramer on January 30, 2008

Short: find . -iname ".suffix" -exec sed -i -e 's#old#new#gi' {} \; Even shorter (ZSH): sed -i -e 's#old#new#gi' */*.suffix

Posted By: jkramer on January 30, 2008

That's ** (two asterisks), I don't get the format of this comment thing here.

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