Periodically I need to replace a string in multiple files on Linux. I find myself looking up this command or a variant every time.
grep -rl OLDSTRING *.FILEEXTENSION | xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/'
{ 2007 10 01 }
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{ 2007 10 01 }
Periodically I need to replace a string in multiple files on Linux. I find myself looking up this command or a variant every time.
grep -rl OLDSTRING *.FILEEXTENSION | xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/'
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