sed on multiple files?

mgrahamnz · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Hi,

I want to do a search and replace on multiple text files. Can I use sed to do this?

i.e. I want to do something like:

Code:

$ sed *.html -e 's/<\/body>/<\!-- blah -->\n<\/body>/' | grep -1 body

... then pipe/ channel the results back into the same files that were searched.

how would one go about this last bit?

Regards, Maek

matrixmadhan · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

if you are looking for in-place edit and access to GNU sed is available
then try with sed -i

mgrahamnz · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

That did the trick - thank-you very much.

Regards, Mark

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