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Lol, Sed is essentially a search and replace, but it's a command line version that is very, very flexible. It's more of a string modifier/parser. Technically it's a 'Stream Editor'
Formatting regexes for it can be complicated if you're not familiar with it. I was suggesting it more as an outlandish option that, while it would work, would be more akin to building a Rube Goldberg machine for it

Your plan with the search and replace with phpmyadmin should work just fine for this need, and will be much easier to do :)

NcongruNt wrote:What about all the links in posts that point to other topics? Surely there are going to be many thousands of these. Will you be doing a database scrub to rewrite them to the new URL?

Pipe the entire database through sed :P