How to change all occurrences of a word in all files in a directory

Question

I was in the process of creating a User class where one of the methods was get_privileges();.

After hours of slamming my head into the keyb

Answer 1

for Mac OS:

find . -type f -name '*.sql' -exec sed -i '' s/privelages/privileges/ {} +

Matwilso's script from above would then look like this if it were designed to work on Mac OS

#!/bin/bash

# This will replace all instances of a string in folder names, filenames,
# and within files.  Sometimes you have to run it twice, if directory names change.


# Example usage:
# replace_string apple banana

echo ${1}
echo ${2}

find . -type f -name '*.sql' -exec sed -i '' s/${1}/${2}/ {} + # inside sql scripts