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bulk search and replace with the silver searcher, awk, sed and xargs
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ag "sometext" --nogroup | awk '{print substr($1,1,index($1,":")-1);}' | xargs -I {} sed -i .bak -e 's/sometext/anothertext/g' {}
@pencilcheck
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Is it possible to make it into a script with arguments?
The default argument names are conflicting with the awk commands...

@charlesoconor
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Yes. The string passed to sed is single quoted so it shouldn't be an issue. The script will just be a little harder to read.

ag "$1" --nogroup | awk '{print substr($1,1,index($1,":")-1);}' | xargs -I {} sed -i '.back' -e "s/$1/$2/g" {}

@nayshawndanner
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Here's a small improvement:
ag $1 --files-with-matches | xargs -I {} sed -i '.back' -e "s/$1/$2/g" {}

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