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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing strings in various files Post 302772654 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 26th of February 2013 10:29:03 AM
Old 02-26-2013
This should be even more efficient:
Code:
cmd=
while read -r w1 w2
do      cmd="${cmd}s/$w1/$w2/g;"
done < wordstoreplace.txt
for i in file[1-5]
do      sed "$cmd" $i > $i.new
done

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