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Find and Replace text in multiple files : (:source lang=bash :) for fl in *.txt; do mv $fl $fl.old echo s/$1/$2/g $fl.old |xargs sed > $fl echo s/$1/$2/g $fl.old rm -f $fl.old done or for fl in *.php; do mv $fl $fl.old sed 's/FINDSTRING/REPLACESTRING/g' $fl.old > $fl #rm -f $fl.old done