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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to replace words in mutiple files under the same directory Post 302592365 by ywu081006 on Monday 23rd of January 2012 04:09:00 PM
Old 01-23-2012
how to replace words in mutiple files under the same directory

I would like to get help to find how to replace word in files from command line instead of to vi to each file.

This is the command i am running now.
grep <old word> *
vi (file with the word found in it)
1,$s/<old word>/<new word>/g

It would very helpful if I can combine these in one commad line.
 

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vlatai(1L)																vlatai(1L)

NAME
vlatai - Lojban word analyzer SYNOPSIS
vlatai [ -v ] [ word ] DESCRIPTION
vlatai is a program that reads a list of Lojban words from standard input, one word per line. In its usual mode, it writes a single output line for each input line, advising of which kind of Lojban word the input line is. If the input word has cmavo prefixed onto it, vlatai shows the individual cmavo and the base word itself. In the verbose mode (obtained using -v), the workings of the internal state machines used for scanning the word are exposed. This may give some insight into where an error lies on words that can't be parsed, especially if the output is used in conjuction with the report files built during the compilation process. Note that vlatai is primarily a testbench for the word categorizer/splitter inside jbofihe. vlatai is not fully supported or documented as a stand-alone program. OPTIONS
-v Verbose; show lots of information about the evolution of the internal state word The word to check. If no 'word' argument is supplied, the program reads words from standard input, one word per line (with no whitespace around it.) REFERENCES
http://go.to/jbofihe Home page for the jbofihe project (of which cmafihe is part) http://www.lojban.org/ Home page of the Lojban community http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/lojban/ My Lojban page. AUTHOR
Richard Curnow <rpc@myself.com> December 2000 vlatai(1L)
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