Replacing string in files

mohan705 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-28-2007

Hi,
I Have 10 files ,I need replace $INPUT_LOCATION with $INPUT_LOCATION_upd .using sed command do it single file .How can change all files in single shot instead of doing individual file

sed -s'/old/new/g' file1

Thanks,
Mohan

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2007

GNU sed has an in-place string replacement flag -i

You can do

Code:

sed -i -e "s/$INPUT_LOCATION/&_upd/g" file1 file2 file3...

Yogesh Sawant · #3 (**permalink**) 08-29-2007

using Perl:

Code:

perl -pi -e "s/\$INPUT_LOCATION\b/\$INPUT_LOCATION_upd/" file1 file2 file3

\b is for defining word boundary

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