Replace expr by other recursively

find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's/toto/foo/g' {} \;

Replace toto by foo in all file found by find.
It make a backup $file.bak

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vyvyan

find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec `tee "{}"".bak" | sed -i 's/toto/foo/g'` \;

pure shell solution

Posted 2009-07-19 01:45:28

dzr

How about we eliminate a pipe and just do:

find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec sed -i.bak 's/toto/foo/g' {} \;

Posted 2010-06-11 21:41:31