UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I generally use Perl for this
ex.
perl -e 's/pattern/replace/g' -p -i <filename>

I did something like this..

find . -type f -exec perl -e 's/pattern/replace/g' -p -i {} \;

I want to do this with "sed"

but what I get is the output being printed on the screen..

i can do sed -e 's/pattern/replace/g' < input > output

but in my case of "find", i dont want to create a bunch of output files, rather the editing to take place in the same file..

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Balaji

Not sure if you have the -i option for your sed

If it does, this will work

Code:

find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/pattern/replace/g' {} \;

to add with Vino,

-i option in sed is available only in GNU distribution

Hi Vino, Madhan,

Thanks for the inputs.. As mentioned, it is not working in my system.. Is there any other thought?

Thanks,
Balaji