[olug] Text search and Replace

[Terry]

lots of ways to do it, here is a 1-liner for you:
perl -i.backup -pe 's/foo/bar/' filename

you can write a loop around this easy enough in bash
to go through all files in a directory.

This replaces all occurrences of foo with bar.  You
might need to tack on a g at the end of the regexp but
I don't think so.

--- Jeff Norton <jnorton at jggt.com> wrote:
> I want to search a directory on my computer and
> replace certain text
> within documents with a new text.
> 
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Terry

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