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I am migrating my blog, and all the posts have metadata at the top of the file. As a result I have a group of nearly 100 files in a directory where I want to do a search and replace for:
^permalink: http://blog.olddomain.com/(.*)$
to
permalink: http://blog.newdomain.com/$1
in all 100 files.
What commands would I use to do this?
sed is often used to pipe something through it, but it can process files just as well and, with the -i option, can even change them in place.
sed -i 's|^\(permalink: http://blog\.\)olddomain\(\.com/.*\)$|\1newdomain\2|g' <shell-glob-pattern>
