[SOLVED] Replace all instances of a word in a group of files?

Fingers of Fudge · 09-11-2013, 05:17 PM

How would I replace all instances of a word in a group of files? I have Slackware installed and would like to know how from bash command line.

What I want to do is replace the word mislike with the word dislike in a group of .htm files

Thanks in advance :-)

grail · 09-11-2013, 05:21 PM

Try sed

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Fingers of Fudge · 09-11-2013, 05:29 PM

ah okay....just had a flick through

will be something like:

Sed s/mislike/dislike *.htm

I will have a proper read and a play around :-)

E2A: thank you for the point in the right direction should be able to work it out from here I reckon :-)