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http://mguhlin.net/2008/10/in-parallel-file-search-and-replace.html

With appreciation,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner
http://mguhlin.net

http://mguhlin.net/2008/10/in-parallel-file-search-and-replace.html

Best wishes,

Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net

A simple python script would do the trick much easily and neatly.

import fileinput, glob, string, sys, os
from os.path import join

text_search = ‘what ever you want to search’
text_replace = ‘what ever you want to replace with’

path = join (’directory to search’,”*”)
files = glob.glob(path)

for line in fileinput.input(files,inplace=1):
lineno = 0
lineno = string.find(line, stext)
if lineno > 0:
line =line.replace(stext, rtext)

sys.stdout.write(line)

You can of course change this so that it takes search text etc. as command line input.

When I am coding html, however, and dealing with an actual website, I use HomeSite 4.5.2. I’ve used it for years, and I just keep installing the app along with license key over and over. Its now an Adobe product, and the price is a pretty steep $99 for the latest 5.5 version.

If I were starting from scratch, I would probably pony up and buy a new version of Homesite. I’d kick and scream a bit first. This seems to be the case with all of Adobe’s products — expensive, but they work.

Portable HTML batch edit-
A unique tool specifically designed to help webmasters, developers and any others to batch convert or operate on multiple files at the same time. It is specifically designed to operate on HTML files but you can use it on any type of files including binary ones.

http://www.app-stick.com/proddetail.php?prod=HTMLbatch

But wait I did just find a AMAZING alternative that does not require you to open all the files you want to search/replace through. It is called BK ReplaceEm 2.0 and at 413kb it can’t be beat! I just finished my article on it and it will be up for everyone to read tomorrow!

It replaces MS Notepad if you want, or stands alone. Clips (their term for macros) are insanely useful. I use them all the time. In fact, I just ran across the problem of wanting to make chanes to 1,400 HTML files I downloaded. Not only could I search/replace with regular expressions through all 1,400 files, I could open all 1,400 files individually or dump them all into a single document (and if I so desired remove all HTML coding, or just keep the URLs). MS Word would have a coronary if I tried that, but Notetab is scorching fast. I think I’ve had up to 800,000 lines of text in a document before without any apparent slowdown.

Maybe the single most useful feature, and worth the download alone, is the ability to turn a text document into an infinite paste board. Press Ctrl+Shift+P for any single tab and it vacuums up any text you copy (no pasting needed). You can even define what you want Notetab to insert at the end of the pasted text (line break, paragraph, tab, asterisks, whatever). Great for superfast “scraping” of text from websites, particularly when you combine with Firefox’s Autocopy Add-On. Sweet.

Notetab comes in 3 flavors. I started with the free downloadable version, but forked over the $35 bucks to the get the Pro version (gives you multiple undo’s, and a ton of other stuff). I’ve literally used it to make thousands of dollars because of the functionality it provides that I simply can not replicate in Word, Excel, or anywhere else as near as I can tell. And I’m always looking for other options, but can’t find anything better.

>Once I click on all the instances I want to change, it will open those files. I can then do my >“replace on all open files”.

If you have 7000+ files, you have click on everything? I tried that and no luck.

Thanks in advance,

Warm regards,
Miguel Guhlin