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Re: Syntax for sed .. altered?
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:32:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: Syntax for sed .. altered?
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- References: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE13946B56A at FS-MX02 dot frontier dot local>
On 28/06/2016 13:45, Fergus Daly wrote:
For ages I have been able to run through all the files under a directory changing occurrences of string1 to string2 with the command
find dirname -type f | xargs sed -i 's/string1/string2/g'
It used to take no time at all for say 6000 files.
Now the same command just hangs.
The files are all text files, no binaries or anything awkward. Just don't understand it.
(By contrast
find dirname -type f | xargs md5sum
still works just fine. 6000 files in less than a second.)
Fergus
sed is unchanged from at least 2013, so it must be something else.
Any idea on the file where is hanging ?
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