Find & Replace Tool?

[wickedDUDE]

Is there a good, free, find and replace tool that I can use to replace multiple files at once?

 

[I_like_cock]

dreamweaver

 

[wickedDUDE]

it has to be FREE

 

[Stanley]

to replace multiple files? what do you mean

 

[wickedDUDE]

Well, I have a bunch of files that I want to find and replace stuff in:

I have maybe 20-30 php files that have many image files names like "images/whatever.gif" I want to replace that with "/images/whatever.gif" without having to go in and change each one manually.. simply because there are hundreds.

 

[Palmerville]

sed

good and free

 

[wickedDUDE]

that program looks kind of ghetto

 

[I_like_cock]

dreamweaver is free. download the trial and use a serial # from usenet.

 

[pfgannon]

dreamweaver is free. download the trial and use a serial # from usenet.

True that

 

[katoved]

EditPadLite, it can work miracles.

 

[Stanley]

I have maybe 20-30 php files that have many image files names like "images/whatever.gif" I want to replace that with "/images/whatever.gif" without having to go in and change each one manually.. simply because there are hundreds.

yeh I know what you mean
I use notepad++
it has tabs so it's really easy to do it
I open all 30 or 50 files and do 'search and replace in every open document'

are you getting mod_rewrite to work or something?

 

[Palmerville]

Seriously. Sed is your friend.

for /f %i in ('dir /b *.php') do sed -e "s/oldvalue/newvalue/" %i > .\new\%i.php"

 

[halfpc]

Well, I have a bunch of files that I want to find and replace stuff in:

I have maybe 20-30 php files that have many image files names like "images/whatever.gif" I want to replace that with "/images/whatever.gif" without having to go in and change each one manually.. simply because there are hundreds.

there you go Tucows Downloads - Simpli-File Find, Replace and Insert 1.40 Freeware Software
it works exactly like you described, best one I know and you can input tons of text in one go, eg: sticking images on top of adsense ads on a site that uses no includes.
If you get probs with it at first, it's to do with checking the right boxes, any probs let me know i'll send screenshot of mine. Forgot to say that this will load a whole folder of a quadrillion files and do them all at once.

 

[rgchris]

Download Notepad++, open the file in Notepad++ and use the find/replace tool. Or were you looking for something more... "batchish".

 

[photoads]

try ultraedit free for 30 days UEStudio / UltraEdit / UltraCompare / UltraSentry - Text Editor, HTML Editor, HEX Editor, PHP Editor - News

 

[Brandon]

Here's one out of my stash: Creative Technology - Software and Design for Education and Training

 

[Voodooman]

I've used this sometime ago. It really got me out of a bind.

BK ReplaceEm download and review - search and replace tool from SnapFiles

Here's some other from snapfiles (the only one I've used and know works is BK ReplaceEm)

Search for software at SnapFiles.com

Good Luck.

 

[bobby]

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