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Mass find-replace using sed

Replace some widespread nasty hardcoded strings. 'sed $file > $file' doesn't work so hot so we use a temp file, and also make a backup of the old file.

for i in $(find . -type f); do sed 's/oldstring/newstring/g' $i > $i-tmp; mv $i $i-backup; mv $i-tmp $i; done
to find grep sed replace by jamiew on Mar 30, 2007
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