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Subject: Re: mass  word find/replace
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Mark wrote:

>I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file
>with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace.
>
>I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh


   perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s)


The old file(s) will be saved with the extension .bak.


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Cheers,
Bernard