find and replace string in a file

Question

I\'m trying to find and replace a string in a folder of files.

Could someone possibly help me?

My script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
OLD=\"Thi         


        

Answer 1

Check this out

http://cs.boisestate.edu/~amit/teaching/handouts/cs-unix/node130.html

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\#!/bin/sh

\# sed/changeword

prog=`basename $0`

case $# in
0|1) echo 'Usage:' $prog ' '; exit 1;;
esac

old=$1
new=$2
for f in *
do
        if test "$f" != "$prog"

        then
            if test -f "$f"
            then
                sed "s/$old/$new/g" $f > $f.new
                mv $f $f.orig
                mv $f.new $f
                echo $f done
            fi
        fi
done

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