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Re: Search and Replace


  • Subject: Re: Search and Replace
  • From: JJ <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:03:39 +0200

> As the number of files I will be checking is in the thousands and each file
> is between 1MB and 50MB any suggestions for speed gains/optimisation I can
> achieve by improving the above script will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I read BBEdit's documentation on grep searches and have a feeling that they
> could achieve what I'm doing more efficiently, but had trouble understanding
> the syntax. Can anyone help?
>
> Simon

Why using applescript? You have a BBEdit interesting option: Multi-file
search with batch find: all your files in a time.
Choose your folder and click "OK".

JJ


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