I generally use:
perl -pi -e 's/string a/string b/g' file1 file2 etc
To recurse directories, use find and xargs to supply the file list on the
command line:
find /some/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/string a/string b/g'
It would only take a few minutes to wrap that up as a single command line
utility if you do it often enough to matter.
Andrew
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> what's the recommendation for a m-r-s-r tool ?
>
> I'm looking to replace multiple string pairs in some web files.
> all I need is simple 'string a' for 'string b' swap, every instance,
>
> replace ? lreplace ?
>
> Voytek Eymont
>
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