http://localhost:1313/tags/xargs/ Recent content in Xargs on Companionway Hugo en-us Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:38:12 -0500 http://localhost:1313/post/recursive-replace-text/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:38:12 -0500 http://localhost:1313/post/recursive-replace-text/ <p>Recently I had to do a find and replace text on multiple files recursively. I had to look up how to do it to remind myself of the exact syntax. If I had to look it up, you have to suffer seeing it in my blog post&hellip; [smile]</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>find ./ -name \*.md -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i &#39;s/header-img/img/&#39; </code></pre><p>Be careful here. I used the -0 option to deal with any filename that have spaces in the name BUT it really requires that the find command contain the -print0 option otherwise things will not operate in the manner expected.</p> http://localhost:1313/search/post/recursive-replace-text/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:38:12 -0500 http://localhost:1313/search/post/recursive-replace-text/ <p>Recently I had to do a find and replace text on multiple files recursively. I had to look up how to do it to remind myself of the exact syntax. If I had to look it up, you have to suffer seeing it in my blog post&hellip; [smile]</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>find ./ -name \*.md -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i &#39;s/header-img/img/&#39; </code></pre><p>Be careful here. I used the -0 option to deal with any filename that have spaces in the name BUT it really requires that the find command contain the -print0 option otherwise things will not operate in the manner expected.</p>