In the last episode (Jul 23), Scott I. Remick said:
> Hello... I'm trying to figure out a way to pull off the following:
>
> I have a subdir with many different sorts of text files (some nested in
> additional subdirs, so recursion would be necessary) that need to have a
> search & replace done on them. What's a quick way to script a global search
> & replace on many/all text files in nested subirs?
find . -type f | xargs sed -i.bak "s/oldtext/newtext/g"
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