find and replace regular expression across many text files 08-28-2014d2320

2014-08-29

find and replace regular expression across many text files 08-28-2014d2320

use perl

example command
perl -pi -e 's/something/something else/g' *.txt

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102083/whats-the-best-tool-to-find-and-replace-regular-expressions-over-multiple-files