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Imagine that we need to mass change the content in certain directory. A combination of find and sed can save the day. It is very to do it in perl as well.

find /your/dir -type f | xargs sed -i ’s/old/new/g’

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Windows are notorious for having files that are named with illegal characters like ?, & spacing…etc. To mass rename them, remember to use quotations in the mv command. eg

for i in *; do mv “$i” newfile_”$i”; done;

It took me along time to figure out that the error lies in the mv command and not the [...]