paul-schwendenman/sed-replace.md

## sed-replace.md

      
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    Directory structure:
$ tree
.
├── a
│   ├── a
│   │   ├── other.json
│   │   └── package.json
│   ├── other.json
│   └── package.json
├── b
│   ├── other.json
│   └── package.json
└── c
    ├── other.json
    └── package.json

4 directories, 8 files

File contents before:
$ find . -name package.json -type f -print -exec cat {}  \;
./a/a/package.json
{
"this": "0.3.1"
}
./a/package.json
{
"this": "0.3.1"
}
./b/package.json
{
"this": "0.3.1"
}
./c/package.json
{
"this": "0.3.1"
}


Replace the version:
$ find . -name package.json -type f -maxdepth 2 -print -exec sed -i '' -e 's/"this": "0.3.1"/"this": "0.4.0"/' {}  \;
./a/package.json
./b/package.json
./c/package.json

Contents after:
$ find . -name package.json -type f -print -exec cat {}  \;
./a/a/package.json
{
"this": "0.3.1"
}
./a/package.json
{
"this": "0.4.0"
}
./b/package.json
{
"this": "0.4.0"
}
./c/package.json
{
"this": "0.4.0"
}