[filename]:[line number]:[text] perl -p -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' `grep -ril searchpattern *` sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' * find -name '*.html' -print -exec sed -i.bak 's/foo/bar/g' {} ; for i in *; do sed -i 's/foo/bar/' $i done ruby -i.bak -pe 'sub(%r{foo}, 'bar')' * perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/' * find -name '*.htm?' -print -exec sed -i.bak 's/foo/bar/g' {} ;