在OSX中查找并替换为grep和sed

Question

I am trying to replace the string #archive in a bunch of files in the same directory with ~archive . My filenames have spaces in them and are rather long. I checked and someone said that I have to invoke grep with -Z and xargs with -0. And so I did.

The current terminal command I have is this:

grep -lZ '#archive' ~/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/* | xargs -0 sed -i "" 's|#archive|~archive|g'

And the output I get is this:

sed: /Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20130824_1553_I_Kino Interesting Books.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131003_1011_R_ExpensesOct13.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131111_1205_RI_SocialConnect.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131111_2233_I_GymNov13Dec13.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131112_1121_I_LifeChallenge.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131112_1242__PaperlessLiving.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131112_1243__Polymath.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131112_1327__ORDPlanning.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/20131124_1126__YunheProjectExcel.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/Contact Information.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/Excruciatingly Useful Shortcuts.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/How does this thing work?.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/Mail Migration.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/Markdownify.txt
/Users/bobthebuilder/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/This is the title of a note.txt
: File name too long

And nothing is replaced.

I also tried:

| => grep -l --null '#archive' ~/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/* | xargs -0 sed -i "" 's|#archive|~archive|g'
sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

Help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

如果文件在同一文件夹中

sed -i "" 's/#archive/~archive/' ~/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/*

Answer 2

If you're going to use the -i arg for sed , you will need to put the command string after a -e .

grep -l --null '#archive' ~/dropbox/documents/notes/Archive/* | xargs -0 sed -e 's|#archive|~archive|g' -i "" 

However, @NeronLeVelo's answer is also correct, and simpler if you don't need recursion (which you aren't using).