[ale] char replacement - repost

[Jason Day]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:44:42AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> for fn in $(find . -type f -print); do
> 
> 	sed 's/John/George/g' $fn > tmpfile
> 	mv tmpfile $fn
> done

My favorite is:

perl -p -i -e 's/John/George/g' `find . -type f -print`

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