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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find & sed -i work fine. Now need -i workaround for old OS. Post 90069 by simonb on Friday 18th of November 2005 01:09:44 AM
Old 11-18-2005
CPU & Memory find & sed -i work fine. Now need -i workaround for old OS.
I have a script that does a search and replace on a tree using find, xargs and sed that looks something like this.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/fromthis/tothis/g'

Now this works fine on new versions on Linux but I need to make the script work on an old RAQ550 that has an older version of Gnu sed that doesn't support the "-i" option in sed that changes files in-place instead of writing to standard output.

Does anyone know any simple, neat workarounds to achieve the same effect without "-i"?

The command above is a simplified version of what I have so simply not using "find" is not the solution I am looking for. Also the script has to handle file names with spaces hense the "xargs -0" stuff.
 

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