[thelist] Fastest Search and Replace

Jay Blanchard jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com
Fri Jul 19 12:36:00 CDT 2002


[snip]
At 10:20 AM 7/19/2002, Joshua Olson wrote:
>I have some files that need text changed.  The files are a few dozen megs a
>piece and the item to be replaced is on every line.  Does anybody know of
>some fast utilities for doing a search and replace of this magnitude?

I like using TextPad for this type of stuff.

         http://www.textpad.com

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Is this all on Windoze? If so HomeSite has a util for doing folder wide S&R.
Is is on *nix or BSD? AWK, SED, and GREP are your friends.

HTH!

Jay

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