Thread: Very Useful, BUT its a Doubt

Hi folks,

I have some doubts regarding editing a file in Linux.

The problem is that, if my file consists something as

Code:

cavestine is a good boy
cavestine is studying in MIT
cavestine likes Kernel programming
cavestine is an active member of cprogramming.com forum.

Now in this file I want to remove "cavestine" by "mark"

Then I can open the file and use the following command to do so.

Code:

:%s/cavestine/mark/g

But the issue is if there are more than 1 file in a directory and I want to replace "cavestine" by "mark" in all files WITHOUT using any script, is there any such command to do so. I DONT want to open individual file and edit as above.

is "sed" the right command to use

thanx in advance

-- cavestine

You could use sed in combination with find, or you could use a for loop on the command line.