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Recursively search and replace old with new string, inside every instance of filename.ext

This is a slightly modified version of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4283/recursive-search-and-replace-old-with-new-string-inside-files (which did not work due to incorrect syntax) with the added option to sed inside only files named filename.ext
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type f -name filename.exe -exec sed -i "s/oldstring/oldstring/g" {} +;

eddieb · 2013-05-20 19:17:10 12
Show list of packages that depend upon 'packagename'

'yum deplist XXX' provides a list of packages that XXX depends on. This command provides a list of packages that depend upon XXX (package reverse dependencies) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
> repoquery --whatrequires --installed --recursive unzip
unzip-0:6.0-1.el6.x86_64
virtualmin-base-0:1.0-63.rh.noarch
```
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repoquery --whatrequires --installed --recursive packagename

eddieb · 2012-09-06 18:20:05 5
Easy way to display yum repo priorities

This probably only works without modifications in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
priority = 1 [asl-3.0]
priority = 1 [asl-3.0-testing]
priority = 1 [base]
priority = 1 [virtualmin]
priority = 1 [virtualmin-universal]
priority = 50 [epel]
```
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sed -n -e "/^\[/h; /priority *=/{ G; s/\n/ /; s/ity=/ity = /; p }" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo | sort -k3n

eddieb · 2012-09-06 00:09:09 9

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