global search and replace

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: 13 May 2003 10:01:36 EDT
brian said:

>vim supports most standard perl-esque regexp/search and replace type
>functions.  You can do global search/replace in vi/vim with something
>like:

Yeah, but how do you do this on thousands of files at once without 
having to manually open each one, enter the editing sequence, then 
save each file.
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