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Command line to substitute string patterns in a group of files
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| perl -e "s/old_pattern/new_pattern/g;" -pi.save $(ack -f path/to/files) | |
| # NOTE: this will create *.save files. Remove them with: rm -f **/*.save |
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| ack -f path/to/files -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/old_pattern/new_pattern/g' |
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