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replace within multiple files
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:59 am
by Andre Girgner
Hello, TextPad supports find in multiple files, that's great. Is there a way to replace within multiple files ?
Andre
Re: replace within multiple files
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:49 pm
by Ed
Yes, first open all documents affected then use the Search and replace and select "all documents"
Re: replace within multiple files
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:58 am
by Andre Girgner
Ed, this works fine for some files, but what is with several thousand files (as in my case) ?
Andre
Re: replace within multiple files
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:28 am
by Ed
I don't think that's a problem.
Taking it one stage at a time:
Close all files
Now open all files required. - It may take some time and you'd need a lot of memory and/or swap space on the disk.
One way to open them is to do a "Find in Files" (Ctrl-F5)
then select all, right-click mouse and open all
Then do your edit. - just don't make a mistake in your replace string!