Text search though all .xib files in Xcode?

Question

This seems like such a basic task, but I\'m stumped.

How, in Xcode, do you execute a textual search though (the XML contents of) all the .xib files in a project?

Answer 1

What I do is run grep in terminal:

grep -i -r --include=*.xib "TextToFindHere" /PathToSearchHere

Xcode doesn't seem to have an option to search xib files and my attempts to get Spotlight to look at them have been unsuccessful.

Answer 2

This works if you use as service....

on run {input, parameters}

 display dialog "XIB Search Text" default answer ""
 set searchtext to text returned of result

 if (length of searchtext) is greater than 0 then

   tell application "Xcode" to set theProjectPath to (the project directory of front project)

   tell application "Terminal"

    set newWin to do script "cd " & theProjectPath & "; " & "rm " & theProjectPath & "/searchXIB.txt 2> /dev/null ; grep -i -r --include=*.xib " & searchtext & " . > searchXIB.txt ; exit"
    activate

    repeat while (exists newWin)
     delay 1
    end repeat

    tell application "Xcode"
     set doc to open theProjectPath & "/searchXIB.txt"
     activate
    end tell

    tell application "System Events"
     keystroke "f" using {command down}
     keystroke searchtext
    end tell
   end tell 
  end if
 return input
end run

Answer 3

I may be daft, but using spotlight works great for me on this one.

Answer 4

grep -i -r --include=*.xib "TextToFindHere" /PathToSearchHere

response: no matches found: --include=*.xib

cd /PathToSearchHere
grep "TextToFindHere" ./ -r | grep ".xib"

this work fine.