Originally posted by: leahcim

Hi All,

I use the command
find . -type f -exec sed 's/pattern_a/pattern_b/' {} \;
to find all files in the current and sub directories which has pattern_a and replace it with pattern_b.

The command did not really do the work, though. It does not replace the pattern in the file; it just print it out on the screen.

Could any one help on this point to improve this one line command to save me from writing a script, thanks in advance.

Best regards,
leahcim
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Originally posted by: cikuraku

maybe you could try this one;
find . -type f | xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/string1/string2/g'
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Originally posted by: morr

find . -type f -exec ex -c '1,%s/pattern_a/pattern_b/g' -c ':wq' \{\} \;
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