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Shell script to recursively find files with the same name and replace text within each of them (See related posts)

This shell script recursively finds files with the same name and replaces text within each of them

   1  
   2  FILE="filename.txt"
   3  FIND="old text"
   4  REPLACE="new text"
   5  find . -name $FILE -print0 | xargs -0p perl -pi -w -e "s/$FIND/$REPLACE/g;"


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to find shell replace by davebryand on Wed Nov 21 13:43:50 -0500 2007

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