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# 8  
Old 03-24-2009
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Originally Posted by coolkid
Awesome thank you so much for your help man..it is working now..
you are always welcome Smilie we are here to help!!!Smilie
# 9  
Old 03-25-2009
Code:
find . -name "*.txt" | while read file
do
	dir=`dirname $file`
	fname=`basename $file`
	sed 's/pid/pid_num/g' $file > $dir/${fname}.bak
	mv $dir/${fname}.bak $file
done

# 10  
Old 03-25-2009
Code:
find . -name "*.txt" -print |xargs -i perl -pie 's/pid/pid_num/g' {}
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