On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 02:00:10PM -0200, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a tool to help me search & replace a given 
> keyword in all files inside a directory (and its subdirectories)... For 
> instance, imagine that I wanted to change, in ALL makefiles of the Linux 
> kernel source, the name of the compiler to use...

Running sed on files identified with find should do the trick.  In this
specific case, there's a shell variable in arch/whatever/Makefile which
controls the C compiler used (whatever being the architecture name - i386
for PCs).

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