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Shell Script for Find And Replace (See related posts)

Here's a little shell snippet for finding and replacing text in multiple files:

for fl in *.txt; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/find/replace/g' $fl.old > $fl
done
to unix bash shell by Anonymous on Sat Apr 09 23:21:28 -0400 2005

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soylent posts on Oct 05, 2005 at 00:20
or, you could do:
for i in `*.txt`
do
sed -i 's/find/replace/g' $i
done

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