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Shell Script For Find And Replace

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Apr. 10, 12 ·

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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
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