Chris Rodliffe wrote:
>
> I have a query - is there any cunning way (using grep or some similar
> command) to replace a short text string in all the files in a directory
> with another specified string? I know many things are possible with
> Linux, just wondering if that is?
>
something like:
find -type f -iname '*.c' -exec perl -i~ -p -e 's/suxx/rulezz/ig' {} \;
will recursively replace word 'suxx' with 'rulezz' in all c files starting
from current directory leaving a backup copy of each processed file in file with 'c~'
extension.
instead of perl can be used anything with enabled batch/macro processing - vim
for example.
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