Re: Search and Replace

[Frank Barknecht <barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>]

John Greer hat gesagt: // John Greer wrote:

> I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a 
> shot anyway.  I need to search a series of files for a text string 
> (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another.  Is 
> there a command or string of commands that I can do this in?  If 
> this is possible it will make my life much easier!!  Thanks 

And here's my favourite one(liner) in perl:
$ perl -p -i.bak -e "s/foo/bar/" *.txt

Replaces foo with bar in every file ending in .txt and makes backups.
See man perlrun 
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