"Shabam" wrote in
news:MImdnaituqywHQfcRVn-ig@adelphia.com:

> Is there a utility or command that will allow me to replace all
> occurrences of a string within all files in a directory?
>
> I'm trying to mass update IP addresses of all DNS zone files in my
> /var/named/ folder.
>
>
>

find . -exec sed .....

In article , Shabam wrote:
> Is there a utility or command that will allow me to replace all occurrences
> of a string within all files in a directory?
>
> I'm trying to mass update IP addresses of all DNS zone files in my
> /var/named/ folder.

Assuming old IP is '192.168.0.5' and new IP is '10.1.0.6', you can do this:

# perl -pi -e 's/192\.168\.0\.5/10.1.0.6/g' /var/named/*

You can also do this, which will make a backup of each file with a ".bak"
extension:

# perl -pi.bak -e 's/192\.168\.0\.5/10.1.0.6/g' /var/named/*

Kevin