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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# Copyright (c) 2016-2022 The Hush developers
+# Distributed under the GPLv3 software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use autodie;
+use Data::Dumper;
+my ($find,$replace,@files) = @ARGV;
+
+usage() unless $find && defined $replace;
+unless( @files ) {
+    printf "No files to replace stuff!";
+    exit 0;
+}
+
+my $fh;
+print "Going to replace $find with $replace in " . scalar(@files) . " files\n";
+
+for my $file (@files) {
+    if (-d $file) {
+        printf "Skipping directory $file\n";
+        next;
+    }
+    unless ( -e $file ) {
+        printf "$file does not exist!\n";
+        next;
+    }
+    open $fh, '<', $file;
+    my $content = join('',<$fh>);
+    $content =~ s/\Q$find\E/$replace/g;
+    close $fh;
+
+    open $fh, '>', $file;
+    print $fh $content;
+    close $fh;
+}
+
+sub usage {
+    die "$0 stringtofind stringtoreplace file [more files...]\n";
+}