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# HOW TO : Search and Replace text in a file with Perl
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/how-to-search-and-replace-text-in-a-file-with-perl/
- Published: 2012-03-04T07:10:59.000Z
- Updated: 2012-03-04T07:10:59.000Z
- Description: There are tons of sites (and tons of different ways to do this) about this information.. But wanted to note this down for my personal records....
- Author: admin
- Tags: HOWTO, Technology, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

There are tons of sites (and tons of different ways to do this) about this information.. But wanted to note this down for my personal records. If you ever wanted to search for and replace certain text in a file, you can do it with perl with this quick one liner

```
perl  -p -i -e ‘s/ORIGINAL_STRING/NEW_STRING/g’ FILE_NAME
```