need help with a sed script

Kevin Brown kevin_brown at qwest.net
Tue May 2 21:18:56 MST 2006


> 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'
> 
> Can someone help please?

find . -name 'somefile' | xargs perl -ne 's/England/Aubrey/'


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