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Created January 20, 2011 22:53
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Perform an in-place (with backup) global search and replace on one or more files
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search-replace.rb
# Perform an in-place (with backup) global search and replace on one or more files
$ ruby -i.bak -ple '$_.gsub!(/..../, "::::")' *
# Replace the ... with the regular expression that you're searching for,
# and the ::: with what you want to replace it with.
# Replace the file glob with whatever is appropriate.
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