>Are there any tools that will do a search and replace of all files of a certain type in a directory?
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>If I wanted to change all .prg files and replace the stinge "HI GUY" with the string "BY GUY"
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>Obviously I can easily do that one file at a time, but I want to do several hundred files at a time and possible a thousand occurances of that string.
You can use GoFish for search & replace. It is great tool. Search it here in Download section
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