Replace Text in Files Recursively (Linux)

To replace text in all the files in a directory, recursively, you can use grep.

sudo grep -rl texttoreplace /somedirectory/ | sudo xargs sed -i ‘s/repacethis/withthis/g’

[bash]sudo grep -rl oldtext /example/directory/ | sudo xargs sed -i ‘s/oldtext/newtext/g'[/bash]

The g on the end, lets it replace all the instances of the text in each file.

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