Find and Replace a string in a textfile within multiple folders

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at March 30, 2008 19:34 by chrisaiv

Initial Code

grep -rl target_string . | xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/target_string/replacement_string/g'

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Initial Description

I had a string within multiple files which were also within multiple folders that I wanted to replace

Initial Title

Find and Replace a string in a textfile within multiple folders

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Initial Language

Perl