How to Quickly Replace Text in Multiple Files with just One Command

Few of the time, we need to alter some particular text in multiple files, and opening editing each file at a time is killer. Here is sweet simple command that uses "Power of `PERL`" to make our life easier.

Command :-

Code:

perl -pi -w -e 's/facebook/worldofhacker/g;' /home/krokite/*.txt

What basically above command does is, It will find word `facebook` in each "text/notepad" file under directory "/home/krokite" and will replace that with `worldofhacker`.


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