Perl : Search and Replace text from a file
Very useful in command line, specially when you have a big file to go through.
perl -pi.bak -e "s/text to find/text to replace/g" *.txt
UPDATE: thanks telemachus for the correction!
Written by Asanka
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@telemachus Thanks for the informative comment! I have updated the post.
over 1 year ago
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