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

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 04:11:37 CST 2007


On 2/9/07, Barney Carroll <barney at textmatters.com> 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.
>
> 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?
>

Not sure, but there should be a find/replace option that is visible -
try the EDIT menu

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/featuressearch.shtml

ben
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