A lovely program called "TextPad" will do exactly what you want. You can
find it at http://www.textpad.com. It's shareware, so if you like you pay.
Sonya
JCH GeoInfo
"Ey, Benjamin" wrote:
> Dear Listers,
> Does anyone know of a way of replacing string sequences within multiple
> files in one go.
> For example, I have about 50 workspace files which I need to move to
> another project directory (along with the associated *.tab files etc.)
> and so I need to edit the workspace files to point to the correct
> location of the *.tab files. These files will all reside under the same
> 'parent' or project directory, so it's only the parent directory name
> that needs changing within the workspace files.
> Now, it's very simple to do this for a single file using a search and
> replace within WordPad or NotePad for example, but as there are so many
> of them I am after a faster solution. Someone told me I could acheive
> this from within Windows Explorer, but I can't see where or how.
>
> Please help!!
>
> TIA
>
> Ben.
>
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