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Find and replace strings inside files from the terminal

Find and replace strings inside files from the terminal

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Replace strings inside files using perl

Note: -w argument enables warnings

Replace all instances of "stupid" with "awesome" in html files on the desktop

perl -pi -w -e 's/stupid/awesome/g;' ~/Desktop/*.html