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[Cliff Oliveira]

I would like to find and replace at once a word within multiple directories from a project, MacVim offers this possibility?

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[David Patrick Henderson]

On 31 Aug 2011, at 07:04, Cliff Oliveira wrote:

I would like to find and replace at once a word within multiple directories from a project, MacVim offers this possibility?

See help for vimgrep, args, and argsdo 

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[Kyle Lippincott]

Keep in mind also that Mac OS X is UNIX, and you can use :! in vim to shell out, so something like:

:!find project/directory -name '*.cc' | xargs sed -i 's/original/replacement/'

Depending on how many files there are, this may be much faster than args/argdo.

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[Kyle Lippincott]

err...  you might need to escape the | in that, vim has its own uses for it (I can't remember if after :! it's *not* treated specially).  It's probably easier to just open a terminal and do it there.

[Cliff Oliveira]

I managed to locate the files using:! grep but how to replace the word being searched?

I used

:!grep sistema. ~/workspace/canto/*

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[Kyle Lippincott]

This only does all of the files in one directory, is that what you intended?  If so:

:!sed -i 's/sistema./replacement/' ~/workspace/canto/*

should work.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed is the wikipedia page for sed, and there are many many tutorials out there on how to use it :)

[Cliff Oliveira]

I tried the tip but sent it returned following error:

:!sed -i 's/sistema./www./' ~/workspace/canto/*
[No write since last change]
sed: 1: "/Users/cliffoliveira/wo ...": command c expects \ followed by text

I tried to put \ at the end but did not work

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[Kyle Lippincott]

Doh. I forgot that -i takes an argument.  Does sed -i -e 's/sistema./www./' ~cliffoliveira/workspace/canto/* work?

I keep responding from my iPhone, so I can't really check if the command I'm giving has the correct syntax. :(