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Old 01-27-2008
Lakris Lakris is offline
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Originally Posted by dbsurf View Post
Because by using sed option its taking too much time for searching and replacing text in all thousand files. And redirecting the modified files to the same directory.
Have You tried the -i option for sed? If Your version supports it. It edits the file "in place", it may cut down on time with file handling and piping, depending on how You do it.

/Lakris