How To Use sed To Recursively Replace Text in Multiple Files

Learn how to find and replace text in-place in multiple files recursively with the sed command on Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

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[jcallen]

Great video, thank you; it helped me a lot. Is there a way to use this same process to change multiple individual instances of a word in a file to another word. In your example you changed Tony to Antonio, but I saw where you also had some occurrences of tony in those files as well. So if you wanted to change all occurrences of a word to another word, regardless of capitalization; is that possible? Let's say I wanted to change all individual letters in a document to their phonetic equivalent (a>alpha, b>bravo, c>charlie, et al) how would I go about that?

[SakshiSharma-ttov]

Hi, how to replace a set of lines in files in a folder with set of another lines in files in another folder in unix.

[keyanviews]

Great- How to replace a line from ( text file 1) to (text file 2) by using sed command and save the replaced file. Could you make a video for that ?

[AliRaza-uzud]

Great Tutorials as always 👍
Can You Please Make a Video on "Installing aaPanel on DigitalOcean Server"? Waiting for that

[navasr]

I have data like "Chair"||"Table"|||"Sofa".. How to add double quotes between each pipeline like .. Please let me knw the command . will sed help this

[Snacksmonster]

Interesting - but I wish you continued to inserting a text in multiple txt files as opposed to replacing them :-)

[nguyenduythinh]

Hi, how can I replace insert text in a specified location

[bendover]

The recurvsive thing here is not a "sed" command facility but a "find" comand one.

[dev_manish]

Tony, would this work if we were to replace Amazon Affiliate ID from Amazon URL?

[basalduat]

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[dxmajrd]

Or, if your files don't all have the same extensions, or extensions at all:
$ find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/find/replace/g' {} \;

[sarakhastoo]

how can I do it, without replacing and direct the result to another output directory, I tried this but didnt work: I want to delete the first line in some files and direct it to the same files name but another directory: find . -name "*summary*.*" -exec sed '1d' > clean_output/{} \;

[sameerap]

what is my string contains mulitple times /