Editing File Tips

To change <text> in a list of files

perl -pi -e 's/<text>/<replacement text>/g' files*.txt

For example
perl -pi -e 's/system\.sysLocation\.0\ \=\ \"India\"/system\.sysLocation\.0\ \=\ \"Kerala\"/g' snmp.walk


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