Command to Replace a String in all Files in Current Directory

Replaces all instance of ‘<old string>’ with ‘<new sting>’ in all the files of the current directory.

perl -pi -e "s/<old string>/<new string>/g;" *

[tags]perl,command,rename,replace,string[/tags]

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