Using sed and grep/egrep to search and replace

Question

I am using egrep -R followed by a regular expression containing about 10 unions, so like: .jpg | .png | .gif etc. This works well, now I would like

Answer 1

Another way to do this

find . -name *.xml -exec sed -i "s/4.6.0-SNAPSHOT/5.0.0-SNAPSHOT/" {} \;

Some help regarding the above command

The find will do the find for you on the current directory indicated by .

-name the name of the file in my case its pom.xml can give wild cards.

-exec execute

sed stream editor

-i ignore case

s is for substitute

/4.6.0.../ String to be searched

/5.0.0.../ String to be replaced