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Search & Replace Text Accross Multiple Files

You can use Perl to quickly search and replace text across multiple files. For example to replace foo with bar all text files:

perl -pi -w -e 's/foo/bar/g' *.txt

as seen here.

tips/linux/replacetxtinfiles.txt · Last modified: 2009/06/08 15:50 by erik