[ale] find/replace ever instance of X with Y in *

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:28:58PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I periodically need a utility to change multiple instances of X with Y
> in files Z.  I know that combinations of awk/sed/grep can do some of
> this, but is there a way with one tool to do this?

perl -p -i -e 's/X/Y/g' Z

Z can be a single filename, a list of filenames, a glob, or program
output.  E.g.:

perl -p -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' `find . -name \*.html`

HTH,
Jason
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