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Find & Replace Using Find + Xargs + Sed

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Replace all occurances of oldstring with newstring. Obviously change wildcard as appropriate.


find . -name '*.ini' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's|oldstring|newstring|g'
Sed

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