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Old 01-25-2007, 11:38 AM
Matt L Matt L is offline
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Grep finds strings and prints them. If you want to do replacements, you will need awk or sed. Grep got its name from an editor command, "goto regular expression and print." Sed is short for "stream editor." I have no idea why "awk."

You'll also need "find," to iterate through the filesystem.
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