Dec/09
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Easiest commandline search and replace that I know
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perl -pi -e 's/$findstr/$replacestr/g' file1 [file2, file3...]
It does not get much better than that. You get the benefit of Perl’s superior regex engine (sed is nice but it just can’t compare), and oooooooo baby it’s fast! Perl was made to process text!
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