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| # ag <https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher> | |
| # usage: ag-replace.sh [search] [replace] | |
| # caveats: will choke if either arguments contain a forward slash | |
| # notes: will back up changed files to *.bak files | |
| ag -l $1 | xargs perl -pi.bak -e "s/$1/$2/g" | |
| # or if you prefer sed's regex syntax: | |
| ag -l $1 | xargs sed -ri.bak -e "s/$1/$2/g" |
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