Although awk is well-known for managing structured data, it's also effective for quick find-and-replace tasks. For example, to replace specific text in a file, you could use: ...

My first thought was to search and replace. They all start and end with the same text, so I thought I could simply search and replace the first part, star, then the last part. No dice.

Does anyone have a Linux shell script to do the following:Walk through all sub-directories below the current one and replace the text in files of a specified extension with the given text. The ...