recursively find/replace text in files

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:53:47AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> hi..
> 
> can't find my old solution to this!! need to know how to find/replace 'text'
> in files in a directory tree. i'd like to be able to either do all files, or
> all files of a specific extension
> 
>  replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in the dir tree
>  replace "foo" with "bar" in all (*.cpp) files in the dir tree
> 
> thanks
sounds like a job for find combined with sed.

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