How to grep and replace

Question

I need to recursively search for a specified string within all files and subdirectories within a directory and replace this string with another string.

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Answer 1

You could even do it like this:

Example

grep -rl 'windows' ./ | xargs sed -i 's/windows/linux/g'

This will search for the string 'windows' in all files relative to the current directory and replace 'windows' with 'linux' for each occurrence of the string in each file.