[ale] char replacement - repost

[Geoffrey]

Robert Coggins wrote:
> Sorry if you get this twice.  I did not ever see my post of this 
> question from yesterday.
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> Is there a way to change a word(chars) in every file of a directory 
> recursively? Similarly to using s/John/George/g in vim?

cd TopLevelDirectoryWhereTheFilesExist

for fn in $(find . -type f -print); do

	sed 's/John/George/g' $fn > tmpfile
	mv tmpfile $fn
done

Please test it as I've not. ;)

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