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Tin-Phams-iMac:PC tinpham$ ls | xargs -t -n1 md5 md5 planetary.doc MD5 (bash) = ab5970d50d67bcafe5c554387f76534e md5 Superman.jpg MD5 (cat) = cdefa50d737dfcf8dc57886ea1a758c4 Tin-Phams-iMac:bin tinpham$ |
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Inside of Files
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find [folder] -type f | xargs -I {} grep -li "text" {}
find [folder] -type f {search the specified folder for all files, returns full path of each file}
| xargs -I {} grep -li "[text]" {} {piped into xargs to grep for all files containing specified text ignoring case}
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Search & Replace Inside of Files
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find [folder] -type f | xargs -I {} grep -li "text" {} | xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_search_for]/g'
find [folder] -type f {search the specified folder for all files, returns full path of each file}
| xargs -I {} grep -li "[text]" {} {piped into xargs to grep for all files containing specified text ignoring case}
| xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_replace_with]/g' {pipe list of files and search/replace with specified text} |
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