[NTLUG:Discuss] sed script

[Chris Cox]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:37 -0600, terry wrote:
> I found and adapted a script to do a particular job, (to change one
> word in multiple files).

Like:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/oldword/newword/g'

print0 helps with funky filenames (spaces, etc) by output a list
of names separated by the NULL character... the -0 reads a list
so separated to xargs and passes as many files as the command line
can handle to invocations of the perl command which does the inline
substitution.