diff --git a/bin/v-replace-in-file b/bin/v-replace-in-file
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2162fd7b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/v-replace-in-file
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/php
+<?php
+
+$current_user=exec('whoami', $output, $return_var);
+if ($current_user != 'root') {echo "You must be root to execute this script\n"; exit(1);}
+
+if (isset($argv)) {
+	if (count($argv)==4) {
+		$find=$argv[1];
+		$replace=$argv[2];
+		$file=$argv[3];
+	} else {
+		echo "Usage: v-replace-in-file 'findString' 'replaceString' file\n";
+		exit(2);
+	}
+}
+
+function fix_backslashes($s) {
+	$s=str_replace("\\n", "\n", $s);
+	$s=str_replace("\\r", "\r", $s);
+	$s=str_replace("\\t", "\t", $s);
+	return $s;
+}
+
+$find=fix_backslashes($find);
+$replace=fix_backslashes($replace);
+
+echo "Find: ".$find."\n";
+echo "Replace: ".$replace."\n";
+echo "File: ".$file."\n";
+
+if (!file_exists($file)) {
+	echo "ERROR: File not found!\n";
+	exit(3);
+}
+
+$buf=file_get_contents($file);
+
+if (strpos($buf, $find)===false) {
+	echo "ERROR: String not found!\n";
+	exit(4);
+}
+
+$buf=str_replace($find, $replace, $buf);
+$r=file_put_contents($file, $buf);
+if ($r) echo "Done.\n";
+exit(0);