Using sed for find-replace

In the I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-know-yet category, here’s a command-line find-replace:

sed -i 's/findthis/replacewith/g' thefile.txt

Or recursive, for all files under the current directory:

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/findthis/replacewith/g' {} \;

From brunolinux.com.

1 Comment

    • Author

      Justin

    • Date

      October 13, 2009

    • Time

      7:36 am

    Guess you didn't get a lot of jokes I made then... =)

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