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I am trying to do a recursive find and replace in HP-UX and am missing something.

What I have at the moment:

find . -name "*.java" | xargs sed 's/foo/bar/g'

I know the problem is that it's not replacing the file inline. I believe on other OS's there is a -i flag, but it seems in my HP-UX version, there isn't.

Any suggestions?

user187195
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2 Answers2

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you could workaround the missing -i like this (untested):

for i in `find . -name "*.java"`; do cp $i /tmp/$$; sed 's/foo/bar/g' < /tmp/$$ > $i;done
sparkie
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You could always use ed

find . -name "*.java" | while IFS= read -r file; do
  ed "$file" <<ED_COMMANDS
%s/foo/bar/g
w
q
ED_COMMANDS
done
glenn jackman
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