This code snippet demonstrates how to replace string in file using perl. This perl script takes in an input file, replaces the all string foo with bar.

my $file = $ARGV[0];
my $filetmp = "$ARGV[0].tmp";
open (INPUT, "< $file") or die("Unable to open $file");
open (TMP, "> $filetmp") or die("Unable to open $filetmp");
while(<INPUT>) {
    if(/foo/) {
        s/foo/bar/;   # replace foo with bar   
    }
    print TMP $_;
}
close(INPUT);
close(TMP);
rename $filetmp, $file;