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Old 09-04-2001
dudboy dudboy is offline
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Question replace text in a file from the command line...

I am having to do a lot of searching thru files to replace words. Is there a command that i can run that will alow me to hunt thru a group of files and replace one word with another without having to open each file idividually?
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