Alternative to `sed -i` on Solaris

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It isn’t exactly the same as sed -i, but i had a similar issue. You can do this using perl:

perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' file

doing the copy/move only works for single files. if you want to replace some text across every file in a directory and sub-directories, you need something which does it in place. you can do this with perl and find:

find . -exec perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' '{}' \;

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