Try a one-liner. 
perl -pni.bak -e "s/1 (\w{1,2}v\w{1,2})/2 $1/" filename

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and call that for every file.
Under windows you can say: 
c:\> for %f in (*.html) do perl -pni.bak -e "s/1 (\w{1,2}v\w{1,2})/2 $
+1/" %f

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I am not sure how to achieve the same under linux.
Note the %f is a shell-wildcard, not a perl hash.


holli, /regexed monk/


Update:
Silly me. I had in mind -p just prints $_ but it assumes loop like -n but print line also, like sed.
Thanks for clarifiying Animator.

Update:
Animator got me to read you're question more carefully. I think your more after something like this: 
perl -pi.bak -e 's/\b(\w{1,2}v\w{1,2})\b/g<a href="$1.html">$1<\/a>/" 
+filename

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Added a /g modifier just in case there can be more occurances in one line.

In reply to Re: A text replacement question by holli
in thread A text replacement question by steamerboy

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