Saturday, September 29, 2007

Howto Search And Replace Text in files Recursively on Ubuntu Linux


I just found a new tool called regexxer, im sure it has been around for a while but I just discovered it.
regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.
simply apt-get install regexxer
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2007 at 7:45 PM

    Can you recommend a source to learn regular expressions? It seems a bit overwhelming - is that just me?

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  2. Dmitry NikolaevJanuary 11, 2008 at 6:09 AM

    Thanks for tooltip!

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  3. Loye YoungApril 1, 2008 at 7:08 AM

    Justin,

    I feel your pain!

    Basic overview of RegEx, and some wry observations:
    manpage of regex


    Gnu EMACS Manual
    http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Search.html

    GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU Awk
    http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Regexp.html

    The GNU C Library Reference Manual, Pattern Matching
    http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Pattern-Matching.html

    See also the manpage of grep.

    Happy Trails,

    Loye Young
    Laredo, Texas
    http://www.iycc.biz

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