How to Find and Replace Words in Multiple Files
What do you do if you have to replace a single word in dozens, or even hundreds or thousands, of text files? You keep calm and download Notepad++ or Replace Text . These two utilities will do the job in seconds. It’s a dilemma common among developers and programmers. Imagine you’re managing a project with hundreds or thousands of files. When a product name that appears on almost every page changes, you can hardly go through each page to manually search and change the name. No, you’re smarter than that. You fire up Google, you find this article, and you learn about a solution that only takes seconds. How to Edit Multiple Files in Bulk You can either use Notepad++ or a dedicated tool called Replace Text to bulk-edit your files. Notepad++ First, allow Notepad++ to find the word in all the files you need to edit. Open Notepad++ and go to Search > Find in Files… or press CTRL+SHIFT+F . This opes the Find in Files menu. Under...