I think this is also correct:
find . -name '*.htm' -exec cp '{}' '{}'.new \; \
-exec sed -i s/old/new/ '{}'.new \;
Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Hello!
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:01:12PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
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Don't use for loops with find results, they do not scale well.
Also, beware of spaces in file.
For this kind of thing, I generally use 'while read'
find . -type f -name \*.htm -print|while read f; do sed s/old/new <"$f"
>"$f.new"; done
This isn't safe wrt newlines in file names, either.
A completely safe solution would be writing a small script:
#! /bin/sh
exec sed s/old/new/ < "$1" > "$1".new
and using find . -type f -name \*.htm -exec /path/to/script {} \;
or find . -type f -name \*.htm -print0 | xargs -0 -L 1 -r /path/to/script
Kind regards,
Hannah.
