Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>>
>> Anyone know of a nifty tool which will do a global search and replace
>> of text inside a bunch of files, all at once?
>
>
> find / -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's/somestring/someotherstring/g' {} \;
>
> or something more complex?
>
The above will do, but I also found a command line utility which does
the same thing, called "rpl". It's its own package under Debian, and is
actually a python script rewrite of a non-free utility by the same name.
Paul
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