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Recursively replacing a string in all files in a directory

Posted on April 11, 2018 by UNIX Admin

You can use the following command to change Specific string on all files under specific directory: find /u01/directory -type f | xargs perl -pi~ -e ‘s/oldtext/newtext/g;’ Tested on Linux & AIX Ref: https://blogs.oracle.com/rammenon/recursively-replacing-a-string-in-all-files-in-a-directory-linux