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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find and replace a search string recursively in files Post 302277478 by Hamaryns on Friday 16th of January 2009 12:03:59 PM
Old 01-16-2009
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Originally Posted by sweavo
make sure your files are in source control before trying this!

sed -i 's/from/to/g' `find . -name \*.ext`
Cheers, this does work fine as long as the filenames do not contain spaces!

How can I adapt it to handle spaces in filenames correctly?

H.
 

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JH_GENERATEORBITDIR(1)						    Javahelper						    JH_GENERATEORBITDIR(1)

NAME

       jh_generateorbitdir - Creates and populates an orbit dir used by pde-build for third-party jar files.

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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