replacing text with sed

[nationavon]

I need to know how to search through all files that are located within subdirectories and substitute "apples" for "oranges". This is on an HPUX box. I guess sed would work best for this. Not sure where to begin. Thanks in advance.

Nathan

 

[dickiebird]

Nationavon's query is already answered in Unix Scrpting forum Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[Annihilannic]

Here's a handy PERL one-liner to do that:

[tt]perl -p -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' `find . -type f`[/tt]

Otherwise you could try:

[tt]for f in `find . -type f`
do
sed 's/oranges/apples/g' $f > $f.$$
mv $f.$$ $f
done[/tt]

...or something like that. It may not preserve file permissions and ownership though. Annihilannic.