perl -pe 's/FOO/123/g' blah.txt -a = fuhergrg -b = awerh9w8eh -c = rgiuhreg -d = C:\tmp\123.txt ------------ Contents of blah.txt >more blah.txt -a = fuhergrg -b = awerh9w8eh -c = rgiuhreg -d = C:\tmp\FOO.txt