Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

We can use find to locate the files to have text modified. We can use sed to do the actual replacement.

To replace the Copyright text with the Copyleft word in all .cpp files, use the following command:

    find . -name *.cpp -print0 | \
        xargs -I{} -0 sed -i 's/Copyright/Copyleft/g' {}