How to replace words in all files?

Fafa Hafiz Krantz fteg at london.com
Fri May 13 03:23:50 PDT 2005


> find / -name '*' -print | xargs grep "lnc0"
> - gives you all files in your system with lnc0 ...
> 
> perl -pi.bak -pe 's/lnc0/rl0/' file1 file2 ... fileN
> - will replace lnc0 - rl0 in all specified files, with backuping of old
> files in *.bak

Thank you!

*nods in burning respect*

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