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Sadhun
Sadhun

Reputation: 264

How to find exact match using sed?

sed 's/\<matching pattern\>/replacing pattern/g' filename

The above command is what I got from stack overflow. But this command is not working in HP-UX B.11.11 version.

Also i would like to know the answer for the below question? how to find and replace the matching pattern across all files in a directory. Repalced value should be modified/rewritten into the same file and saved.

I was able to match and replace across all files using the below command but was unable to rewrite/save the outputs into the same file.

awk 'match($0,/matching pattern/) {gsub(/matching pattern/,"replacing pattern")}1' *

Upvotes: 0

Views: 990

Answers (1)

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174716

You could do this through GNU find command,

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/match/replace/g' {} \;

It would find the files --> match the string--> replace the match --> Save the changes made to that file.

Upvotes: 1

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