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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Not replacing using sed Post 302943267 by ramkumar15 on Thursday 7th of May 2015 02:09:29 AM
Old 05-07-2015
I have list of 1000 files in a text file, can anyone tell me how to replace a word in all the 1000 files. I have placed all the text files names in the a text file. changes.txt

this is command I am using to replace a single file.
Code:
 perl -pi.bak -e 's/apple/orange/'  filename

Code:
cat changes.txt
file1
file2
files3
..
..
filen

file1 ,file2, file3 contain the word apple I need to replace to orange, I need to do in a single shot. any help please.
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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