How to recursively remove the caret (^) character recursively in all files in a directory?

Question

I wish to remove all caret characters from all files present in the current directory. Please help.

Answer 1

You must tell sed to edit the file in place by specifying the the -i option, otherwise sed will write to its stdout. You're not passing any file names to sed . Use {} syntax of find to pass matched file names.

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/\^//g' {} +

Please note that to replace matched patterns with nothing, you must leave the replace part of the substitution empty.