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

If you are using a zsh terminal you're able to use wildcard magic:

sed -i "" "s/search/high-replace/g" *.txt