Re: quick grep question

From: Conrad J. Sabatier (conrads_at_cox.net)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:48:25 GMT

In article <1gva7oh.1vjvmqtemwelbN%spam@zeouane.org>,
spam <spam@zeouane.org> wrote:
>
>
>IHi,
>I have a directory structure, and I want to find a string in a file
>buried deep in that structure ..
>
> find . -name "filename" -exec grep "string" {}\;
>
>... would do it ?

Yes.

>Now if I want to *replace* that chain with something else ..? I'm lost.

find . -name "filename" -exec sed -i '' -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' {} \;

Incidentally, this really isn't a FreeBSD-specific issue. Questions of this
nature are better directed to one of the other comp.unix.* groups, such as
comp.unix.shell or comp.unix.questions.

>Thanks in advance.

You're welcome. 

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"

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