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John
Asked: 2010-08-21 08:32:12 +0800 CST

use SED recursively in linux?

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I want to implement the following command recursively

sed -i 's/href=\"1\//href=\"\/1\//g' ./*

so that it replaces all href="1 with href="/1 in all sub-directories. Is there a flag I can add to this command to achieve the results I want?

linux unix shell sed

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  1. Best Answer
    find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/href=\"1\//href=\"\/1\//g'
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  2. Per https://stackoverflow.com/a/5130044/833771, if the target directory is a Git or SVN root, you should use: find . -not \( -name .svn -prune -o -name .git -prune \) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/href=\"1\//href=\"\/1\//g'

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