I have a frequent need to run a multi-file search and replace on large folder hierarchies. Since these searches may parse thousands of files, but only find hits in a few hundred, it seems that being able to use the list of matching files as a filter for future searches would be of great time-saving benefit, since that is typically what I have to do.
The files to be modified usually contain an internal version number or datestamp which needs to be replaced whenever a match for replacement is found, but devising grep search and replace strings which can make both changes in one hit are not always possible, given that the files may be large. At the moment, I resort to leaving the search results window open and manually stepping through each matching file and updating the version/build string with a separate grep search. This can be quite tedious. Any suggestions, for doing this within BBEdit directly, rather than having to resort to shell scripting and perl or sed/awk? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/f6862f58-51d5-4b5e-8978-1b36548e5077n%40googlegroups.com.
