[lug] Little vim trick, editing multiple files

[Tkil]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Diederich <andrewdied at gmail.com> writes:

Andrew> I needed to edit a bunch of files, changing /old/path to
Andrew> /new/path.  I knew there was a way to do it in vim, but
Andrew> couldn't remember offhand.

I tend to reach for perl for this sort of thing:

  perl -i~ -pwe 's:/old/path:/new/path:g' files...

Quick version of the arguments:

  -i~  edit "in-place", create backup if changed with "~" suffix
  -p   print every line after applying the script
  -w   print warnings
  -e   script is given on command line in next arg, not in first file

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