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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find and Replace Post 302173174 by vino on Wednesday 5th of March 2008 11:20:26 PM
Old 03-06-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by NycUnxer
After running a command like

grep -ir files2/ *

This will find all the files that contain "files2/" in it.

For example if it finds

files2/dir/today
files2/dir/yesterday
files2/dir/2daysago

Now it may find 100 instances, so is there a quick find and replace command I can use? I basically want to remove "files2" from all instances. tia.
Code:
grep -ir files2/ * > list.txt
while read file
do
  sed -i -e "s/files2\///g" $file
done < list.txt

You need to have GNU sed for the -i flag. If you dont have that, replace sed with perl.
 

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