how to replace a character INSIDE the text content of many files automatically?

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I have a folder /myfolder containing many latex tables.

I need to replace a character in each of them, namely replacing any minus sign -, by an en dash –.

Just to be sure: we are replacing hypens INSIDE all of the tex file in that folder. I dont care about the tex file names.

Doing that manually would be a nightmare (too many files, too many minuses). Is there a way to loop over the files automatically and do the replacement? A solution in Python/R would be great.

Thanks!

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