need help with a sed script

[Jerry Davis]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 20:55:23 -0700
Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:

> 
> I absolutely just do not understand sed...
> I have a ton of files and scripts I've collected over the years.
> Through the course of time I was adopted and my name was changed, now
> I am changing it back to my original name and I want to change my nme
> in all my scripts... this is lame and tedious no doubt, but something
> for fun.
> 
> All my scripts are located in a series of folders contained under my
> Documents folder. Basically, I need to find every file that contains
> the word 'England' and  replace it with 'Aubrey'

try this:

BE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP copy of your Documents directory first.
Then do:

cd ~/Documents
grep -R England | cut -d: -f1 | while read f; do
  sed 's/England/Aubrey/g' "$f" > "$f.temp"
  cp -f "$f.temp" "$f"
done

  

> 
> Can someone help please?
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