[Tfug] Quick command line question...

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Wed Mar 10 20:02:06 MST 2010


for i in *; do
  sed -i 's|regurjitation|regurgitation|g' "$i"
done

It's really that simple...

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com>wrote:

>  Use grep, if there aren't that many files, replace the words manually??
>
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> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:05 -0500, <tfug-request at tfug.org> wrote:
>
>  I want to do a command to search for that and
>> replace it with "regurgitation" across all files where the bad one is
>> found, and save all files to their original names.
>>
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