[thelist] OT? Making same modification to large number of files
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Tue Feb 13 15:44:27 CST 2007
On Feb 9, 2007, at 4:06 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?
BBEdit can search/replace entire sites -- it's under "Find" in the
Search menu. It's all GUI-run, and understands grep (Regular
Expressions). The "multi file" options are at the bottom of the
Search dialog -- also note the "Other" and "Options" buttons (for
selecting the files setting options such as filters, respectively).
I use it all the time for this type of thing.
Good luck.
Steve
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