On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:30:34PM +0100, Björn Andersson wrote: > sed(1) should be able do the trick. > > sed -e /pn_/s//nuke_/g * > > The above command should replace all pn_ to nuke_ in all files in the directory you > run the command.
Except that will print the result to stdout -- I suspect that the OP
would find an in-place edit more useful, like so:
sed -i.bak -e 's/pn_/nuke_/g' filenames
(Or any of the other responses in this thread.)
Cheers,
Matthew
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