Search and replace in lots of files with find and sed
Written by Guillermo Garron
Date: 2012-12-05 17:51:32 00:00
Bash on Linux or Mac OS X, is full of tools, and you can perform a lot of repetitive tasks with a single line.
One that I like a lot, is to change a string in a lot of files at the same time, with just one line of code.
You will need find
and sed
.
find /home/user/ -type f -exec sed -i 's/old-string/new-string/g' {} \;
Replace:
- /home/user/: With the path where your files are.
- old-string: With the string you need to look for.
- new-string: With the string you want to be in place of old-string
Enjoy the power of Bash.