[Gllug] I know this is a bit of a n00b question

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 23:14, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:33:49PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > grep -rl mypassword * | sed -e s/mypassword/dummypassword/g
>
> The first bit is right, but sed won't rewrite the file in place. It's
> a stream filter. This is what the Perl '-i' option in my example is



Yes. I worked out that was thw problem and used your perl example in the end, 
instead. Thanks.

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