substitute a text pattern in a bunch of files?

Question

File list contains a few thousands filenames like:

./folder/folder/file.ext

For each item of the list I should edit a file: substitute text pattern "old_text_pattern" by "new_text_pattern". This command:

cat filelist | while read line; do sed -i 's/END_CREDIT_END/END_CREDIT/g' "$line"; done

gives an error:

sed: 1: "./folder ...": invalid command code .

How to perform the substitution properly? Thanks.

If any of the filenames contain spaces this will not work. See http://stackoverflow.com/q/1574898/18157 — Jim Garrison, Aug 11 '14 at 23:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '14 at 23:20

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OS X sed -i is not like GNU sed -i. OS X's requires an argument.

cat filelist | while IFS= read -r line
  do sed -i bak 's/END_CREDIT_END/END_CREDIT/g' "$line"
done

answered Aug 11 '14 at 23:20

that other guy

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