Linux: Find and Replace in Files

Thanks to Jon H., I can now do find and replace in files on Linux machines from the command line. Its pretty simple, but I had never bothered to figure it out.

Here are two examples. The first is for just one file, the meat and potatoes are in the second example, which does a find and replace in all PHP files.

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sed -i -e "s/TOREPLACE/REPLACEMENT/g" temp.txt;
sed -i -e "s/TOREPLACE/REPLACEMENT/g" `find -name '*.php'`;

Super helpful.

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Time Wednesday, June 13th, 2007, 11:19 am   |   CategoryLinux  |  RssRSS feed |  CommentRespond  |  TrackbackTrackback

One Comment to “Linux: Find and Replace in Files”

    
  1. Prabhat
    August 6, 2007 at 7:05 am

    Hi,
    Good post,
    very simple and easy to use.

    keep it up !
    :)

    

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