Unix Tip: FIND AND EDIT IN ONE

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Unix Tip 3195 - November 5, 2009

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FIND AND EDIT IN ONE

Have You Ever found a need to find a file for a particular pattern and then edit the same ??

Here is an easiest way....

At the UNIX prompt, Just type:

vi `find . -name "*" -exec grep -l "pattern" {} \; -print`

Where "pattern" is the string to be searched.

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