I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.

In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the …

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If you need to work on cluster, is nice to have syncronized terminals to send the same commands in parallel.

Is it also doungerous, so do some test before sending a bunch of vi commands!

On Unix, a cheap and fast solution is Kde "konsole" which has such option.

Look under "View/Send input to all …

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Use the sed -i command

sed -i.BAK 's|foo|bar|g' files # -i does in-place replacement
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' files                # or
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' `find /pathname -name "filespec"`

Perl is the preferred way, but on some production system you must use the old good sed. For some tips on sed take a …

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