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I use the grep command to search for a string in many files. Is there something similar to "search and replace"?

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answered 1 Year ago reangi · Accepted Answer

You are looking for the sed command. For example, to replace the "dog" with "cat" in all text files in the current directory:

sed -i 's/dog/cat/' *.txt