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perl -pi -w -e 's/find/replace/g;' subdirectory/*.txt

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Re^2: One-line shell script for find and replace
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 05, 2005 at 08:23 UTC 
    perl -pi -w -e 's/find/replace/g;' subdirectory/*.txt
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    To quote from the root node: 
    perl -pi -w -e 's/find/replace/g;' *.txt

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    How do I make the above one-liner to find and replace in sub-directories ?
    which suggests he wants to traverse a directory tree recursively.
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      Eg:
      1. home/xyz.txt
      2. home/contacts/abc.txt
      3. home/contacts/addresses/pqr.txt

      Within the 'home' directory I need to find and replace a particular word in all text files (xyz.txt, abc.txt, pqr.txt)
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        1. How does this comment apply to the node you're replying to?
        2. How do the replies you already got fail to answer your question?
        Re the first point indeed I was explaining this to the person who had suggested subdirectory/*. So why do you write that to me rather than to him/her?
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