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Old 11-17-2008
Lakris Lakris is offline
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Hi, another view, and a question; are all the files You want to change in the same directory? Then You could try something like

Code:
sed -i.bak -e "s_/bb/bin/msga/mm 80\&_/bb/bin/mm 80\&_g" *
the -i.bak saves the original with a bak-extension just in case.

/Lakris