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change string in multiple file

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hello, may i know how can i find and change string in multiple file...i had refer some of the post here .. but found that all is about find and change string in a file only..let say i want to change all occurences of the string 'hei' to 'hello' in only the file with extension .txt....how i can do that.....thanks in advance...

Name: David Perry
Date: March 8, 2003 at 09:00:45 Pacific

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#/bin/ksh for file in `find . -name '*.txt' -type f -print` ; do echo $file sed -e 's/hei/hello/' $file > $file.tmp mv $file.tmp $file done

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