* This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
> I want to replace every instance of 'gzip' occuring in a source tree with
> bzip2. This is how I did it:
>
> for file in `grep -rl gzip *`
> do cp $file $file.old
> sed s/gzip/bzip2/ < $file.old > $file
> done
>
> But I'm sure there's a shorter solution. Suggestions?
perl -i -pe 's/gzip/bzip2/g' *
Should work
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