Command line "find" piped to sed on Windows not working - windows

I'm building a website that uses the Angular Material design package. Recently after an update, the package changed the names of many CSS styling classes, thus breaking old code. The package provided a command that can be run to replace all instances of the old name in .css and .scss files with the new name (source):
find . -type f -name "*.scss" -o -name "*.css"| xargs sed -i 's/\.md-/\.mat-/g'
I think this is meant to replace all .md- with .mat- in the styling files found in the project directory and sub-directories. After making sure that I can run both find and xargs on my Windows machine, I tried to run the command. Here is what I get:
C:\project>find . -type f -name "*.scss" -o -name "*.css"| xargs sed -i 's/\.md-/\.mat-/g'
File not found - "*.css"
sed: no input files
C:\project>find . -type f -name "*.scss"| xargs sed -i 's/\.md-/\.mat-/g'
Access denied - .
File not found - -TYPE
File not found - F
File not found - -NAME
sed: no input files
IRunning as Aministrator makes no difference. I have no idea where to go from here. What's the matter? Is there a different way to do this on Windows 7?


Provided that you have a proper xargs and sed on your Windows system, you can try using dir instead of find, something like:
dir /b /s *.*css | xargs sed -i 's/\.md-/\.mat-/g'

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[edit]
gfind . -name "*.mako" (not gfind -iname "*.make" .)
[/edit]

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Edit:
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I hope this helps.

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