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Subject: Re: Syntax for sed .. altered?
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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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