[thelist] OT? Making same modification to large number of files

Barney Carroll barney at textmatters.com
Fri Feb 9 04:06:08 CST 2007


ben morrison wrote:
> Most editors will allow you to do a find and replace using different
> file options - open files/directory/folder etc. Would that work? Make
> sure you make a backup beforehand.

Thanks for your swift response, Ben.

I'm on OSX. I use BBEdit, and Vim on a terminal. Would you know how to 
go about such an operation in either of those?


Regards,
Barney



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