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Find and mass replace, Find and delete
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gistfile1.sh
# Delete backup files
find . -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;
# Find and mass replace. It creates .bak files, but without the .bak this doesn't work in OSX
find . -exec sed -i.bak s/Find/Replace/g {} \;
# find and replace
ack -l 'Find' | xargs perl -pi -E 's/Find/Replace/g'
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