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Created October 30, 2015 00:08
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bulk search and replace with the silver searcher, awk, sed and xargs
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ag "sometext" --nogroup | awk '{print substr($1,1,index($1,":")-1);}' | xargs -I {} sed -i .bak -e 's/sometext/anothertext/g' {}
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