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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing text from multiple files at multiple location Post 302420846 by curleb on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 04:16:07 PM
Old 05-12-2010
Perl will do this in place, if you throw a PIE into the mix:

Code:
my_list="fileA.txt fileB.txt $(find /data/jobs -name "*.txt" ) "
for i in ${my_list} 
do 
   perl -pi -e 's/{fr_string}/{to_string}/g' ${i} 2>/dev/null 
done

 

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