Sweeping Directories

[dattaway at attaway.net]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> I need to sweep a sed command through a directory tree (web site) and change
> the original files.  Any suggestions on a script approach?

Here's sed with his friend find:

To print lines 10 and 15 in all files in a tree

find . -exec sed -n '10,15p' {} ;

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