On Thu, Mar 04, 2004, Kyle wrote:
>hi
>need a little help
>I would like to search a group of files for text and replace that text with
>another text.
>ex.
>search for numformat 44 and replace with numformat .

You can do this with sed, awk, perl, or other tools with a bit of
work, or use the GNU shtool, and to it trivially:

shtool subst \
-e 's/numformat 44/numformat/g' \
*.txt

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