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chrisaiv on 03/30/08


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Find and Replace a string in a textfile within multiple folders

 / Published in: Perl
 

I had a string within multiple files which were also within multiple folders that I wanted to replace

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  1. grep -rl target_string . | xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/target_string/replacement_string/g'

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