Showing posts with label xargs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xargs. Show all posts

Sunday, January 06, 2013

Linux command to replace string in all files in directory

    grep -rl 'string1' * | xargs sed -ie 's/string1/string2/g'

Change string1 to string you want to replace.
Change string2 to replace string. 

Delete all files with same extension in Linux command

    find . -name '*.yourext' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Replace yourext with extension you want.
Or change *.yourext to pattern that you want.