I often combine Unix's find-exec and perl-pie like this: 

$ find /path/to/files -name "*.xml" -exec perl -p -i -e 's/this/that/g
+' {} \;

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Depending on the snippet/string/filename relationship, you may be able to repeat the above, just changing find's -name and perl's "this" and "that": 

$ find /path/to/files -name "*.txt" -exec -perl -p -i -e 's/these/thos
+e/i' {} \;

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Or you can create a simple perl or other script and use find to pass in the filename: 

$ find /path/to/files -type f -exec changeIt.pl {} \;

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In reply to Re: Manipulating File Contents Interactively by hbm
in thread Manipulating File Contents Interactively by TheWorldPeace

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