Find and replace command for whole directory in Linux

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In many case most of the projects have so many files in so many different folder. So at some point you want to do find and replace for particular word in your whole project or whole directory in that case this command will help you.

In linux for doing this there is no single command but we can design one new command by combination of several.

find /path/to/directory -type f -exec sed -i.bak 's/oldword/newword/g' {} \;

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