Find and replace with sed in directory and sub directories

Question

I run this command to find and replace all occurrences of  apple  with  orange  in all files in root of my site   find    -exec sed -i  s apple orange g          But it doesn t go through sub directories   What is wrong with this command   Here are some lines of output of find        index php   header php   fpd   fpd font   fpd font desktop ini   fpd font courier php   fpd font symbol php

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Your find should look like that to avoid sending directory names to sed   find    -type f -exec sed -i -e  s apple orange g

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I think we can do this with one line simple command  for i in  grep -rl eth0   2 gt   dev null   do sed -i    s eth0 eth1      i  done   Refer to this page

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In linuxOS   sed -i  s textSerch textReplace g  namefile   if  sed  not work try     perl -i -pe  s textSerch textReplace g  namefile

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This worked for me   find    -type f -exec sed -i     s NEEDLE REPLACEMENT     php

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Since there are also macOS folks reading this one  as I did   the following code worked for me  on 10 14   egrep -rl   lt pattern gt    lt dir gt    xargs -I  sed -i     s  lt arg1 gt   lt arg2 gt  g      All other answers using -i and -e do not work on macOS   Source

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grep -e apple your site root        -s -l   xargs sed -i     s apple orage

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For larger s amp r tasks it s better and faster to use grep and xargs  so  for example   grep -rl  apples   dir to search under   xargs sed -i  s apples oranges g

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