in reply to substitute a word in the whole file .. how ???
perl -i.bak -pe 's/frog/toad/g' txtfile
This one-liner will save your old file into txtfile.bak, and modify txtfile by changing every occurrence of "frog" into "toad".
See perlrun for details on the command line arguments.
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