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sed recursive replace

grep -rl oldtext . | xargs sed -i 's/oldtext/newtext/g'

sed replace

For using match in sed replacement, just border it with '(' and ')':
echo Before123 | sed 's/Before([0-9]*)/1After/g'
123After	# number is matched withtin '( )' and replaced in '1'
Example with 2 match replacements
echo a_b | sed 's/(^.*)_(.*$)/first is 1 and 2 is after/g'