Question

I am trying to do a recursive find and replace in HP-UX and am missing something.

What I have at the moment:

find . -name "*.java" | xargs sed 's/foo/bar/g'

know the problem is that it’s not replacing the file inline. I believe on other OS’s there is a -i flag, but it seems in my HP-UX version, there isn’t.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

find . -name "*.java" | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

or

find . -name "*.java" | xargs perl -pi -e's/foo/bar/g'