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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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Sounds like you also need "sed"
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html...2/sed_toc.html You can place this in a loop in a shell script. You can get the files to edit from ls or find. |
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