I need to replace a string in a lot of files in a folder, with only ssh access to the server. How can I do this?
I need to replace a string in a lot of files in a folder,
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I need to replace a string in a lot of files in a folder, with only ssh access to the server. How can I do this?
Occurrences of “foo” will be replaced with “bar”.
On BSD systems like macOS, you need to provide a backup extension like
-i '.bak'or else “risk corruption or partial content” per the manpage.