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Replace a string in multiple files
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Replace a string in multiple files

Case sensitive:

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' {} \;

Case insensitive:

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/gI' {} \;

Occurrences of "foo" will be replaced with "bar".

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