replace text in file linux code example

Example 1: ubuntu command line replace word in files

sed -i 's/original/new/g' file.txt

Example 2: linux replace string in all files

sed -i 's/old-text/new-text/g' input.txt

Example 3: sed replace in file

sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' hello.txt

Example 4: replace word in file linux command

sed -i 's_oldword_replaceword_gI' document_name.txt

Example 5: bash find and replace all files with specifc name with another file

find . -name "boom.txt" -exec cp ~/replace.txt {} \;