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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4127- May 30, 2012
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SEARCH AND EDIT IN ONE 
Want to search all files for in the local directory for
 a string and then edit them in vi?
 
 This will do it.
 
 vi `grep -il "target" *.sql 2>/dev/null`
 
 Search all files in a directory structure for
 a regular expression and edit with vi.
 
 vi `find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print | (xargs grep -il "[a-z][a-z]*get" 2>/dev/null)`
 
 It's a good idea to redirect stderr in case you come
 across files for which you don't have read permissions.
 The errors messages would be passed as arguments to
 vi.
 
 This tip generously supported by: jkstill@bcbso.com
 
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