sarep

Command-line search and replace tool; written in Perl; handles regexps

Sarep is a command-line search and replace tool written in Perl. It supports regular expressions, case insensitivity/sensitivity, multiple file search-and-replace, wildcards, writing out to a new file (rather than overwriting the modified file), proper handling of metacharacters, reading search/replace string from a file, and silent/verbose modes.