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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4173- July 15, 2012
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 : Today's Tip Unix Tip #4173- July 15, 2012
 
 
FIND AND EDIT IN ONE 
Have You Ever found a need to find a file for a particular pattern and then
 edit the same ??
 
 Here is an easiest way....
 
 At the UNIX prompt,
 Just type:
 
 vi `find . -name "*" -exec grep -l "pattern" {} \; -print`
 
 Where "pattern" is the string to be searched.
 
 
 
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 4170
 - GREP TEXT NOT BINARY
 4169
 - GET THE HIDDEN FILES
 4168
 - FINDING A STRING
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