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by **Willem Kosse** » Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:12:00

how do i replace a string with some other string in a number of files with
one command?

Thanks

Willem Kossen

by **Michael Heimin** » Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:45:39

> how do i replace a string with some other string in a number of files with
> one command?

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by **Juergen Hec** » Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:01:02

> how do i replace a string with some other string in a number of files with
> one command?

> Thanks

> Willem Kossen

Basic idea:

for f in *.txt ; do vi -c '%s/string/replacement/g | wq' $f >/dev/null
; done

Replace strings in files