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Search & Replace Inside of Multiple Files
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Across Folders
The key is using xargs. Used Perl this here bue can easily be replaced with sed,
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find [folder] -type f | xargs -I{} grep -li "text" {} | xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_search_for]/g'
find [folder] -type f # search the specified folder for all files, returns full path of each file
| xargs -I{} grep -li "[text]" {} # piped into xargs to grep for all files containing specified text ignoring case
| xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_replace_with]/g' # pipe list of files and using perl search and replace with specified text |