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Question

grep -l \\\'texttofind\\\' * | xargs sed -i \'s/toreplace/replacewith/g\'

Im getting this error when I run the above command in the terminal.

Answer 1

I figured out what was wrong. I needed to add '' after the -i and before the 's/../../':

grep -l \'texttofind\' * | xargs sed -i '' 's/toreplace/replacewith/g'