mass word find/replace

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:30:34PM +0100, Björn Andersson wrote:
> sed(1) should be able do the trick.
> 
> sed -e /pn_/s//nuke_/g *
> 
> The above command should replace all pn_ to nuke_ in all files in the directory you run the command.

Except that will print the result to stdout -- I suspect that the OP
would find an in-place edit more useful, like so:

   sed -i.bak -e 's/pn_/nuke_/g' filenames

(Or any of the other responses in this thread.)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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