09-20-2010
SED command using multiple input files
What is the syntax to use multiple input files in a SED command. i.e. substitute a word with a phrase in every file in a directory.
for every file in /usr/include that has the word "date" in the file
grep -l '\<date\>' /usr/include/*.h
find each occurrence of the word "time" in the file & replace it with "Smarts" and write the results to newfile.txt
sed -n 's/\<time\>/Smarts/pg' [results of the grep -l query above] >>newfile.txt
I tried starting with the grep & pipe to sed. it just reads the filenames in, not the file.
I can
sed -n 's/\<time\>/Smarts/pg' /usr/include/*.h >>newfile.txt but that uses every file in /usr/include, not just the ones containing the word "date"
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