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Find-replace with ag & sed or perl
# Ag & Sed (w/ backup)
ag -0 -l . | xargs -0 sed -ri.bak -e 's/find/replace/g'
# Ag & Sed (w/o backup)
ag -0 -l . | xargs -0 sed -ri -e 's/find/replace/g'
# Perl
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 perl -i -w -pe 's/old/new/g' $(find . -name \*.* -print)
# Perl (with multiline search)
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 perl -i -w -p0e 's/old/new/g' $(find . -name \*.* -print)
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