Recursive search and replace in text files on Mac and Linux

Question

In the linux shell, the following command will recursively search and replace all instances of \'this\' with \'that\' (I don\'t have a Linux shell in front of me, but it sho

Answer 1

A version that works on both Linux and Mac OS X (by adding the -e switch to sed):

export LC_CTYPE=C LANG=C
find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/this/that/g'