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This week I had to replace multiple occurences of a text on a windows PC. The text could be found in multiple html or php files scattered over multiple directories and subdirectories.

Here's how I did it:

1. I started up my linux box
2. created a working directory (mkdir smbshare)
3. smbmount //machinename/sharename smbshare -ousername=administrator
4. type in the password
5. find smbshare -type f \(-name “*.html“ -o -name “*.htm“ -o name “*.php“ \)  | xargs grep -li “mytext“ | xargs sed -i -e 's/mytext/mynewtext/gi'