Thomas B. Quillinan writes:
> Hey,
> Is there any quick way of doing a global search/replace on some files
> Basically what I'm trying to do is replace all occurances of AAA with BBB
> in all the html documents under a certain directory...
> I think you can do this with sed, find, grep etc but don't know the command
> options...
> can anyone help?
Something along the lines of
# for file in `find . -name '*.html' ; do mv ${file} ${file}.bak ; sed 's/AAA/BBB/g' ${file}.bak > ${file} ; rm ${file}.bak ; done
maybe?
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