sed command not working in mac

Question

Following sed command is not working on my lion mac.

find . -type f -exec sed -i \'s/user_dashboard/user/g\' {} \\;

I am getting this error

Answer 1

replacing text inside a text file on the fly with sed on mac is possible.

the command is just a little different.

with: -i , you specify an extension where sed will save the original file prior to the sed operation.

run the command as:

$ sed -i _bakup -E 's/THESTRING/THEGRANDSTRING' /tmp/jestinkt.txt