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find and replace with ack and perl regex
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ack-find-replace.sh
ack -l 'PATTERN' | xargs perl -pi -E 's#PATTERN#REPLACEMENT#g'
ack -lQ '${PATTERN}' | xargs perl -pi -E 's#\${PATTERN}#\${REPLACEMENT}#g'
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rdasxy commented Jan 29, 2015

This is where you need to use sed & awk.

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JrGoodle commented Feb 7, 2015

yeah, I still need to read that post you sent me. wanna fork it and modify it to use sed and awk?

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