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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check all files in directories for string and remove.. possible? Post 90967 by LordJezo on Tuesday 29th of November 2005 08:43:44 AM
Old 11-29-2005
Check all files in directories for string and remove.. possible?
Say I am in /var/adm/bin and I want to search through all the various scripts and such in that directory for a string, say, xxx@yyy.com

I want to find every file with that in there and replace it with a single space.

Is that possible?

Or, is it possible to search every file and get a list of what files have that in there?

If I do a more * | grep xxx@yyy.com I get a list of all the lines with that in there but no reference to the file name.

Anyone have any ideas?
LordJezo
 

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