>I have some files that I want to replace <USERNAME> with something like
>joe.somebody
>
>the files are in multiple locations:
>
>/location1/file1
>/location2/file2
>/location3/*.xml
>
>I have tried to figure out how to do this with sed but I'm not having any
>luck.  Any sed people out there that can point me to the correct sed command
>line.

The sed command is as simple as using a subset of vi:

        sed -e "s/<USERNAME>/joe.somebody/g" inputfile > outputfile

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