Easily Replace all Occurrences of a String in Multiple Files Using Linux

This came in handy when I needed to change the IP address used in several links on a customer's site. I simply specified the path to all the web files, and ran a command similar to the one below.

find /path/to/directory -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/stringtoreplace/replacementstring/g'

Note that you can change *.txt to just * to search inside all files. Also keep in mind the replacement command will be completed recursively (files nested inside directories will also be searched).