Recursively find and replace strings in SunOS 5.10

Question

What would be a UNIX command for recursively finding and replacing strings in text files on a SunOS 5.10 machine?

Ex:

I want to replace a string SIR01111 with SIR02222 in files from my current directory, recursively.

http://theunixshell.blogspot.com/2012/12/find-and-replace-string-in-all-files.html — Vijay, May 06 '13 at 10:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '13 at 10:13

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find . -name "*.txt"|xargs perl -pi -e 's/SIR01111/SIR02222/g'

answered May 06 '13 at 10:13

Vijay

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