Multi line search and replace tool [closed]

Answer 1

The JetBrains family of IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PHPStorm etc. will do a multi-line search and replace.

Select the text in question and press ctrl-shift-F -- this will open the replace dialog with the selected text as the find expression (using a regex with newlines escaped as \n)

Answer 2

Only thing that works turnkey in one shot is dreamweaver....

Answer 3

RegexSearch is a bit ugly but a very useful tool for just this sort of thing.

Answer 4

Ultraedit can do that. I parted with money for it.

There is a tutorial on multi-line find & replace which you can use with "replace in files" to apply over multiple files.

Answer 5

I successfully used Multiple Find And Replace 1.10, a freeware program that do just that: searches for multiple lines in a TXT or list of TXT's and replace them with other text at your wish or delete them. I found it here for download: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Multiple-Find-And-Replace.shtml

Answer 6

cd $PROJECTDIR && find . -iname '*.*' -exec vim -c 's:^first line of text\nsecond line of text\n3rd line of text:new 1st line\rnew 2nd\rnew 3rd:' -c 'w!' -c 'q' {} \;

HTH