With perl installed: find directory | xargs perl -pi -e 's/needle/replace/g'
With sed installed: #!/bin/bash find directory > mirror exec 3<mirror while read file <&3 do replace=`more $file | sed -r -e 's/needle/replace/g'` cat $replace > $file done On Sep 19, 11:30 pm, bittu <shashank7andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Linux shell command to find all files in a directory which contain ip > addresses -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.