megatux · January 18, 2012 15:58
diff --git a/gistfile1.sh b/gistfile1.sh
 # If you want to search and replace a word in all files within a specified directory in Unix, do the following:

 # For example, here I wanted to do a global search and replace of all files within the current directory  to ’2010′ from ’2008′.

 find . -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/2008/2010/g'
	# If you want to search and replace a word in all files within a specified directory in Unix, do the following:

	# For example, here I wanted to do a global search and replace of all files within the current directory to ’2010′ from ’2008′.

	find . -type f \| xargs perl -pi -e 's/2008/2010/g'