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Directory level search and replace string
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Using ack, xargs and sed in shell -

ack -l old_str | xargs sed -i -e "s/old_str/new_str/g"

Example ack -l excerpt | xargs sed -i -e "s/excerpt/description/g"

Using VIM -
Doing this will be quite complicated in vim as explained by Drew Neil in vimcasts.org

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