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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and replace a word in all the files (that contain the word) under a directory Post 302561682 by alister on Wednesday 5th of October 2011 12:22:13 AM
Old 10-05-2011
No backups. No reading the same file twice. No remorse. Just ed. Smilie

Code:
for f in *.sh; do
    ed -s "$f" <<-'EOED'
        1,$s/xsgd1234dap/xsdr3423pap/g
        w
        q
    EOED
done

Note: The heredoc indentation must consist of tabs (not spaces).


Alternatively:
Code:
for f in *.sh; do
    printf %s\\n '1,$s/xsgd1234dap/xsdr3423pap/g' w q | ed -s "$f"
done


Regards,
Alister
 

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