Comments on: Recursive Find and Replace With grep and Perl http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/ Thoughts, news, code by Sean Murphy Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:16:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesse http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/comment-page-1/#comment-925 Jesse Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:36:31 +0000 http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/#comment-925 If you have ack (way faster than grep) you can: ack -al test | xargs sed 's/test/foo/g' to test and add the -i to sed to write the files ack -al test | xargs sed -i 's/test/foo/g' It doesn't make a backup, but that's what version control is for, right? ;-) If you have ack (way faster than grep) you can:
ack -al test | xargs sed ‘s/test/foo/g’
to test and add the -i to sed to write the files
ack -al test | xargs sed -i ‘s/test/foo/g’

It doesn’t make a backup, but that’s what version control is for, right? ;-)

]]> By: Russell http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Russell Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:54:48 +0000 http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/#comment-924 Cool, worked a treat :) Cool, worked a treat :)

]]> By: Christian Hofer http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/comment-page-1/#comment-910 Christian Hofer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:04 +0000 http://iamseanmurphy.com/2009/04/11/recursive-find-and-replace-with-grep-and-perl/#comment-910 Thank you very very much :-)) Thank you very very much :-) )

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