MassReplaceIt

Name: MassReplaceIt
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

3.1.1

02 January 2020

Find and Replace utility.

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Overview

MassReplaceIt allows you to easily make changes across many files at once. Remove unwanted text from filenames, replace text throughout a website, number your files, and more.

Key features include:

Search file contents or filenames
Preview changes
Ability to confirm changes at file or change level
Save search configurations for later reuse
Exclude files based on filter criteria
Regular expression support
Undo changes made in recent searches

What's new in MassReplaceIt

Version 3.1.1:

Fixed issues related to use of the '/' character in replace text and the macro wildcard ('*') in find text
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looking-for-info1972

06 December 2018

Hi there, I'm having issues making MassReplaceIt work for Word docs in a folder. I"m looking to do a mass replace of dates for a whole bunch of documents without needing to go into 15 different docs to do it. any help much appreciated!

Version 3.0

1 answer(s)

Hexmonkey Software

08 December 2018

Unfortunately replacing content in Word documents isn't currently supported since they're not stored as plain text. This is a common request though, and although I can't promise anything, I'm planning to look into the feasibility of supporting this in a future version.

Super handy find/replace utility. Event better, a responsive and helpful developer! He even put together an AppleScript for me to help automate some things I was trying to do with the app.

Version 2.9.1

Searched for five days to find a tool that replaces multiple words and there was nothing. I was pulling out my hair then I found this! 2006 but still works perfectly in 2017! Highly recommend!

Version 2.9.1

jon-13

10 January 2015

It looks like there is no way to just perform a search. I find that shocking

Version 2.9.1

2 answer(s)

Hexmonkey-Software

26 January 2015

MassReplaceIt is designed as a find and replace tool. If you're looking for a pure search tool, there are plenty of other applications that are designed specifically for this that will probably suit you better. You can, however, preview any change before it's made, and if you then cancel the changes then it can be used as just a search (though this is not what it's designed for).

jon-13

26 January 2015

You could double the usefulness of the app by simply adding a find only checkbox

This worked like a charm. I used it to replace eval(base64_decode()) malware in a WordPress installation. It found every instance and removed it all perfectly.

Version 2.9.1

I've used this puppy mainly to selectively replace the contents of HTML files I created in iWeb. For this, it is IMHO an ideal tool! Changing contents 30 files just takes a few seconds. And that's for multiple changes per file. Fast enough. Just use finder search to select the files I want in a hierarchy of folders, then drag&drop them on massreplaceit. (that's how you can do nested folder/treewalk for those who asked for the feature) You can have multiple sets saved for various repetitive tasks, so even if a more complex search-and-replace is needed to modify a file (or files) which normally would take a 2-step approach, it can be done. With ease. The fields can take quite lengthy pieces of text (I haven't ran against a limit yet), which makes it very easy to have f.e. the META values in a HTML file be replaced by something I want. For me it's an ideal side-companion to iWeb.

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Version 2.9.1

Worthless to me. Asked it to remove the extension .ts from the end of a folder full of .ts files. It couldn't. Asked it to remove "p.0" from the middle of the same files and replace it with "p." It couldn't. I'm glad so many others are having such roaring success though. I'll look elsewhere. OSX3.9

Version 2.9

1 answer(s)

Hexmonkey-Software

19 July 2006

Hi Dom21, Thanks for your feedback. Most likely your search settings weren't correct, for example it may have been set to search contents when you wanted to search filenames. If you email me (see the link on the MassReplaceIt website) I can help you find the problem.

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Version 2.9

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