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Created May 10, 2019 15:51
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In-place search and replace using grep and sed
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in-place-search-replace.sh
grep -Rl text_to_find directory_to_search 2>/dev/null | while read line; do sed -i 's/text_to_find/replacement_text/g' $line; done
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