UNIX: How to change all instances of a string within all files in a directory

Question

My question is basically the same as this previous question...

How to change all occurrences of a word in all files in a directory

...except I'm trying to change the reference to a header file.

For example,I'm trying to change [lessthan]abc/filename.h[greaterthan] to "filename.h", is this even possible using the same syntax, or should I be looking to whip myself up a quick program to do it?

Thanks

You could do this quite easily with a number of tools. The most common choices would probably be sed or perl. — Tibrogargan, Mar 16 '16 at 04:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '16 at 04:31

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You can do it easily with sed:

sed -i -e 's,<abc/filename.h>,"filename.h",' *

answered Mar 16 '16 at 04:31

Kurt Stutsman

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