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Old 12-23-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by umen View Post
Hello all
I need to search and replace in multiple files that are in directory hierarchy
Im using the :
f
PHP Code:
ind . -name "*.dsp" -print | xargs grep -n -o Test.lib" , I like to be able to 
replace every instance of Test.lib
with empty space .
how can I write one liner that does this ?
Code:
find . -name "*.dsp" | xargs -i sed 's/Test.lib//g' {}