App that allows for making edits on several files at once?

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I just had the trouble of needing to change the paths of AutoIt
scripts all at once. I changed the location of my AI scripts and so
then had to change the paths to the WAV files of about 30 files all at
once. That was sooo tedious and time-consuming. Was wondering if
anyone knew of a program where we could change an exact line of text
in multiple files at once and with one operation?

Thanks.
 
fitwell said:
I just had the trouble of needing to change the paths of AutoIt
scripts all at once. I changed the location of my AI scripts and so
then had to change the paths to the WAV files of about 30 files all at
once. That was sooo tedious and time-consuming. Was wondering if
anyone knew of a program where we could change an exact line of text
in multiple files at once and with one operation?

Thanks.
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InfoRapid Search & Replace can do that.

http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm
 
fitwell skrev:
I just had the trouble of needing to change the paths of AutoIt
scripts all at once. I changed the location of my AI scripts and so
then had to change the paths to the WAV files of about 30 files all at
once. That was sooo tedious and time-consuming. Was wondering if
anyone knew of a program where we could change an exact line of text
in multiple files at once and with one operation?

Thanks.
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sed and/or awk
 
sed and/or awk
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========================================================================
SC-Search-and-Replace will quickly replace text in all your documents
within seconds. SC-Search-and-Replace supports previewing,
case-sensitivity and various search options. This program is fast and
easy to use, making it one of the most powerful search-and-replace
utilities available. In addition to replacement of text within files,
SC-Search-and-Replace supports changing text within filenames too. With
SC-Search-and-Replace it's possible to rename multiple files on your
hard disk within seconds.

SC-Search-and-Replace takes only 32 KB of hard disk space and works on
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

http://www.soft-central.net/scr.php
========================================================================
ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However,
unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor,
ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple files at once. And you need
not only perform one search-replace operation per file - you can setup a
list of operations to perform. If different groups of files need to have
different operations performed on them, this is no problem either. You
can also specify a backup file for each file processed just incase the
replace operation didn't do exactly what you wanted.

When specifying which files to be included in a particular replace
operation, you can add one file at a time, or you can tell ReplaceEm to
use all the files from a particular folder - or the files from that
folder that match a given file filter (such as *.txt or *.html). You can
even specify to include all files that don't match a particular filter.
Additionally, you can decide to include the files from all subfolders of
that folder.

One very powerful feature of ReplaceEm is that you can specify that the
destination of the altered file be some other location than where it
originally came from. This is handy, for instance, if you want to have
some search-replace operations performed on a particular file and have
it saved to a destination file, and then want to have different
search-replace operations performed on the same file, and have it saved
to a different location.

Another powerful ability of ReplaceEm is to make use of regular
expression search-replace operations, as well as range search-replace
operations. These are, in fact, so powerful and complex that most users
will probably not need to mess around with them. They are, however,
vital in certain situations, and turn ReplaceEm into a much more
intelligent text processor.

When the replace operations are performed, a log file is generated to
let you know if everything went ok; Information about which files were
processed, where they were saved to, where they were backed up to, and
how many replace operations were performed on them are provided.

http://www.boolean.ca/replace/
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Was wondering if
anyone knew of a program where we could change an exact line of text
in multiple files at once and with one operation?
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I haven't the freeware version but I think Notetab would be able to do
that ;

http://www.fookes.com/album/

Regards, John.

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I just had the trouble of needing to change the paths of AutoIt
scripts all at once. I changed the location of my AI scripts and so
then had to change the paths to the WAV files of about 30 files all at
once. That was sooo tedious and time-consuming. Was wondering if
anyone knew of a program where we could change an exact line of text
in multiple files at once and with one operation?

Thanks.
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Text Magician from www.davidpye.com

quote....

What does it do?

Text Magician allows you to easily edit one or more text files in the
following ways:-

1. Remove leading spaces and tabs.
2. Remove trailing spaces.
3. Remove all blank lines.
4. Add a blank line after each line.
5. Capitalize the first letter of each line.
6. Capitalize the first letter of each word.
7. Capitalize all text.
8. Make all text lower case.
9. Sort the lines in the file(s) alphabetically.
10. Remove text from the start of each line.
11. Remove text from the end of each line.
12. Remove text from everywhere in the file(s).
13. Add text to the start of each line.
14. Add text to the end of each line.
15. Add text in a new line after each line.
16. Remove a block of text.
17. Replace text everywhere.
18. Join multiple files and include dividers.

You can also split a file in the following ways:-

1. Into a specified number of files.
2. Every X number of lines.
3. Split at specified text.
4. The first 17 editing functions can also be included when splitting a
file.
 
fitwell skrev:

sed and/or awk
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Or MiniTrue http://www.pagesz.net/~minitrue
Copyright (C) 1995-99 Andrew B. Pipkin (e-mail address removed)
Released under the GNU Public License

Introduction

MiniTrue is a versatile utility which combines a fast and powerful
search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer, enabling
quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or modification of a large
number of files. MiniTrue can operate interactively and prompt to see
if a replacement should be made or it can make all desired
substitutions automatically. MiniTrue can also print out matching
lines in the manner of the utility grep. If no strings to search for
are present, MiniTrue functions like the pager program less.
 
Manual says Freeware Version:
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"Can search for text in disk files but cannot perform replace
operations"
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Interesting. At ;

http://www.i386.info/doswin.htm

it says....

NoteTab Light 4.6a

"multi-file, multi-line search and replace"
It would seem that quite a few functions are crippled.
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Agreed, but perhaps Multi-Replace on the same page will do what
the OP wants ?

"A nice find-and-replace tool with a graphical front end; it can
locate and replace text strings in multiple files."

Regards, John.

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Agreed, but perhaps Multi-Replace on the same page will do what
the OP wants ?

"A nice find-and-replace tool with a graphical front end; it can
locate and replace text strings in multiple files."
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Have you used this program to do a find & replace of text strings in
multiple files?

If not I tend to believe the User Manual downloaded from the
applications website.
 
Text Magician from www.davidpye.com

quote....

What does it do?

Text Magician allows you to easily edit one or more text files in the
following ways:-

1. Remove leading spaces and tabs.
2. Remove trailing spaces.
3. Remove all blank lines.
4. Add a blank line after each line.
5. Capitalize the first letter of each line.
6. Capitalize the first letter of each word.
7. Capitalize all text.
8. Make all text lower case.
9. Sort the lines in the file(s) alphabetically.
10. Remove text from the start of each line.
11. Remove text from the end of each line.
12. Remove text from everywhere in the file(s).
13. Add text to the start of each line.
14. Add text to the end of each line.
15. Add text in a new line after each line.
16. Remove a block of text.
17. Replace text everywhere.
18. Join multiple files and include dividers.

You can also split a file in the following ways:-

1. Into a specified number of files.
2. Every X number of lines.
3. Split at specified text.
4. The first 17 editing functions can also be included when splitting a
file.
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Excellent, thank you!
 
Have you used this program to do a find & replace of text strings in
multiple files?
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Yes I have. But I am using the payware version. Like I clearly stated,
I don't know whether the freeware version does this as well.
If not I tend to believe the User Manual downloaded from the
applications website.
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Fine by me.

Regards, John.
 
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