I want to replace the backslash in the string page_path\example_filename.txt
with a forward slash. I also want to be able to run this on a large file system and have it recursively search all directories.
I found someone on the web who said to use grep
, xargs
, and sed
but I wasn't able to get it to work. I've been trying different variations on delimiters and escape characters, but didn't get it.
Here is the command I was trying to run:
grep -lr -e 'page_path\\' * | xargs sed -i 's/page_path\/page_path//g'
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
Also you can use find for that:
The second exec will be executed only if the first one was succeed, and you won't get problems with unprintable or escape needing characters in file names.