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One-line shell script for find and replace (See related posts)

An equivalent of the other find-replace, except it's a one-liner that generates no temp files, and is more flexible:

perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' *.txt


Or, to change matching files in a hierarchy:

find . -name '*.txt' |xargs perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g'
to unix bash perl shell by willer on Sun Apr 10 09:47:37 -0400 2005

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jarnoan posts on Oct 03, 2007 at 09:32
That didn't work when the file names contained white space. This seems to work even with them (with GNU find and xargs):

find . -name '*.txt' -print0 |xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g'


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