[ale] need a simple script

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Mazukna <Mazukna> writes:

    Thomas> Morning scripting gurus, need a script that takes in a
    Thomas> file which is list of files and does a global string
    Thomas> replace in each file.

xargs perl -i -pe 's{foo}{bar}g' < filenames

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