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Shell script to recursively find files with the same name and replace text within each of them

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

FILE="filename.txt"
FIND="old text"
REPLACE="new text"
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 Nov 21, 2007
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