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How do i find and replace a string on command line in multiple files on unix?
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Remove all the files you don't want to edit by selecting them and pressing DEL, then right-click the remaining files and choose Open all. Now go to Search > Replace or press CTRL+H, which will launch the Replace menu. Here you'll find an option to Replace All in All Opened Documents.
s/search/replace/g — this is the substitution command. The s stands for substitute (i.e. replace), the g instructs the command to replace all occurrences.
The 'sed' command is used to replace any string in a file using a bash script. This command can be used in various ways to replace the content of a file in bash. The 'awk' command can also be used to replace the string in a file.
there are many ways .But one of the answers would be:
find . -name '*.html' |xargs perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' Like the Zombie solution (and faster I assume) but with sed (standard on many distros and OSX) instead of Perl :
find . -name '*.py' | xargs sed -i .bak 's/foo/bar/g' This will replace all foo occurences in your Python files below the current directory with bar and create a backup for each file with the .py.bak extension.
And to remove de .bak files:
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