What tool or method do you recommend to find and replace values in your code? If code is on Linux/Unix, are find and grep the best method?
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What tool or method do you recommend to find and replace values in your code? If code is on Linux/Unix, are find and grep the best method?
Take a look at ack, which is designed for searching big codebases.
For replacing, look at Perl’s -i, -p and -e flags. You can do stuff like:
to replace all instances of thisword with thatword in all .html files in the tree.