command line find/replace help
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        Published on 2011-01-10T17:26:43Z
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I've got a set of 5000+ files that I need to do a simple search and replace in. I have been doing it in a text editor (EditPlus) by opening 500 files at a time, doing a global search/replace, saving all, closing, etc. But, that's taking literally hours to do and it's boring and tedious and I already have done it once today and need to do it again because all the files got refreshed. Is there a way to do this via the Bash command line? Here's the details:
Find onchange="document.location ='/products/view.html/view/'+this.value"
Replace it with onchange="alert('Not implemented')" style="display: none"
All of the files have a .HTM extension, but they are nested in several sub directories.
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