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

[Richard Jones]

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
for.

Rich.

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