Re^2: One-line shell script for find and replace

perl -pi -w -e 's/find/replace/g;' subdirectory/*.txt [download]
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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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Re^3: One-line shell script for find and replace by pkk (Scribe) on Oct 05, 2005 at 09:11 UTC
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)	[reply]
Re^4: One-line shell script for find and replace by blazar (Canon) on Oct 05, 2005 at 09:18 UTC
How does this comment apply to the node you're replying to? 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*?	[reply] [d/l]