Replace word from multiple files in linux/unix using grep and perl
for single file.
perl -pi -e ’s/OLDCHAR/NEWCHAR/g’ filename.txt
For multiple files.
grep -R –files-with-matches ‘OLDCHAR’ . | sort | uniq | xargs perl -pi~ -e ’s/OLDCHAR/NEWCHAR/g’
Thanks,
Jayesh
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