How to mass Search & Replace in text files.

[Alex Beamish]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Lance F. Squire <lance-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> One of the sites on my server has been infected with some malicious Java
> Script.
>
> I can locate all the files with:
>
> grep "Bad JS" `find . -name "*.html"`
>
> Is there a way to modify this to replace the "Bad JS" with ""?
>
> Or a find variant?

The classic tool for doing this is sed .. but you could also use perl
-ie 's/Bad JS//' *.html

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