Replace a single string in a large number of files in Unix
If you have Perl installed on your system With Perl, you can make the replacement from the Unix command line prompt. At the prompt, enter: perl -pi -e ‘s/old_string/new_string/g’ file_pattern Replace old_string with the string you want to replace and new_string with the replacement string. Replace file_pattern with the files you want to modify. This can be a shell wildcard, such as *.html. The […]