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Reputation: 2833

AppleScript to find and replace in a folder of text files

I need to replace text in a folder full of text files. How would I go about this?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 461

Answers (1)

Lri
Lri

Reputation: 27603

tell application "Finder"
    set l to files of desktop as alias list
end tell
repeat with f in l
    set input to read f as «class utf8»
    set text item delimiters to "search"
    set ti to text items of input
    set text item delimiters to "replace"
    set b to open for access f with write permission
    set eof b to 0
    write (ti as text) to b as «class utf8»
    close access b
end repeat

I mostly just use find in project in TextMate or Ruby scripts like this:

Dir["#{ENV['HOME']}/Desktop/*"].each do |f|
  input = File.read(f).gsub(/search/, "replace")
  File.open(f, "w") { |f| f.print(input) }
end

You could also use sed:

sed -i '' 's/search/replace/g' ~/Desktop/*

Upvotes: 1

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