[SLUG] String Replacement

From: tom ufer (tomufer@keepandbeararms.com)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 03:55:46 EDT


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This may be simple, but i'm reading and reading and I can't find out
how. What i'm trying to do is a string replacement in many txt files at
once. Say theres 100 files with the name Jim in them and I want to
replace "Jim" with "Jim H". I can manually do it one by one with emacs,
but there may be thousands of needed replacements and that would take
OMG way too long.

Any help?

Thanks in advance.



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