Re: test a sed command?

On 09/14/2011 12:41 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Thank you all. Apparently I was not clear that I was talking about
> doing this for a number of files and in potentially several
> directories in a hierarchy. Since sed seems also to have no recursive
> directory option either, it seems I have to just know which direcories
> have eligable files in them and do it a directory at a time. I was
> trying to avoid copying all the material to a test directory, but that
> seemed the best course. Putting Joseph's solution and Kevin's
> suggestion together with globbed file names for a test showed me I
> would feel pretty safe even doing this in the live directories since
> the substitution is of IP addresses which are very definitive in form.
>
> Thanks again!

From your top directory:

    # find . -exec sed -i.bak 's/old/new/g' {} \;

Good Luck
Kevin
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