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Dru Freeman
Dru Freeman

Reputation: 1826

Extract BBEdit search history into a shell script

I live off the regex search/replace in BBEdit. At times I cycle through a history of 8-9 search/replaces to convert a file.

Is there anyway to extract the BBEdit search/replace history?

Best would be to just have the history auto generate a shell script.

I realise I can copy them by hand, but by the time I realise I need it; I'm up to 7-9 rather complex regex blots that would just be annoying to hand copy and paste.

Any ideas warmly welcomed.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 291

Answers (2)

KBStew
KBStew

Reputation: 11

If you want to save your search / replace history, when BBEdit is closed, you can find it inside <your_user>/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Setup/BBEdit Preferences Backup.plist

You will find it under the key <key>FindDialog_SearchReplaceHistory</key>, in an array.

But you need to close BBEdit instance for the file to refresh the application cached metadata.

Upvotes: 1

Dru Freeman
Dru Freeman

Reputation: 1826

Found what I should have looked for from the beginning.

com.barebones.bbedit.plist has an array entry FindDialog:SearchReplaceHistory

This entry is an array of dicts that includes all settings for the search/replace.

A simple tool can be spun to pull the data and convert in on the fly to a shell script.

Upvotes: 2

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