Answer by Göran Uddeborg for Replace string in multiple files using find and sed
You can use any delimiter using sed too (not only with perl as @vesa-karjalainen suggested), e.g. find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec sed -i 's:original:result:g' {} +
View ArticleAnswer by Vesa Karjalainen for Replace string in multiple files using find...
Escape the slash, writing \/ You could also do: perl -pi -e 's!original!result!g' *java using ! as a delimiter instead of /. This is a bit shorter than using find & sed.
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So I've arrived at the conclusion that for recursively replacing all instances of a string in directory (only for .java extensions files) I need to use find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec sed -i...
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