Replace in multiple files - graphical tool for Linux

Question

It needs to be graphical. No sed, awk, grep, perl, whatever. I know how to use those and I do use them now, but I need to cherry-pick each replace in 300+ files.

I want a tool where I can:

• type a search string
• type a replace string
• select a directory and file extension

and it would recursively go into each file in that directory and its sub-directories, open it and scroll to the place where search string is and offer two options:

• replace (and find next)
• find next

Nothing more. Reg.exp. support is a plus, but not required.

SOLVED: Regexxer is exactly what I needed. In case someone needs it on Slackware, here's what you need to download and how to compile it (choosing correct version of each dependency can be a PITA)

Answer 1

Emacs + dired + query-replace-regexp

For complete recipe follow this link (it's rather long, covering all possible alternatives),

Answer 2

jEdit does exactly what you need. It is written in Java and works well in Linux, Windows and OS X (probably other operating systems also).

Answer 3

I use gVim for this task all the time. I open up all the files at once, then use the commands to perform a subsitution on each file, asking for confirmation. Generally I use < 20 files, so I open them as tabs and use this:

:tabdo %s/foo/bar/gc

gVim works fine on Windows :) My coworkers often use Textpad to do this same thing, but I'd say gVim is much more efficient at it.

Answer 4

If you are a KDE user there's also kfilereplace.