To edit the file in-place instead, at least in GNU sed, add --in-place or -i (before -e, so -i -e not -ie), updating the existing_file with a replaced section in place.

I have folders old and new. I want to replace all the contents in old/* to new/*. There can be many subdirectories in those folders. But there can be few files which are not in new/* but are in o...

I have 20 text files with various extensions in a directory. I want to replace " nnn " with " ooo " in all files. I could import them into a project in Eclipse or Visual Studio to replace them all but that is …

Nov 22, 2015 · Using Notepad++ to find a string on a line in a file, and replace that entire line with the match with another string Instructions Open Notepad++ and press Ctrl + F and then from …

Nov 22, 2023 · Then it is copied. I have tried with anothers files, .pdf, .doc, .txt and this problem doesn't happen, I can replace the file. I have tried restarting the computer, to avoid any …

Batch file to replace all underscores _ with the letter M to all files in current directory Put this in a batch file named change_underscores_in_this_directory.bat

Mar 7, 2021 · When done, to replace the include file with the temp file, considering the service is active, is it better to use cp, mv, echo > or other? It is not clear to me how it works with …

Jun 15, 2015 · This will search for the string windows in all files relative to the current directory and replace 'windows' with linux for each occurrence of the string in each file.

Dec 10, 2018 · In earlier versions of Windows (XP, 7 and 8.1) when you copy a file to another folder and there is an existing file with the same name, you are presented with a dialog …

Using a shell like bash or zshell, how can I do a recursive 'find and replace'? In other words, I want to replace every occurrence of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in this directory and its