Eclipse search replace many files

For a full answer and example with screenshots see here: stackoverflow. Brings you to File Search. Anonsage Anonsage 7, 3 3 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. Roland Tepp Roland Tepp 7, 10 10 gold badges 55 55 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges. Alireza Fattahi Alireza Fattahi Enter text, file pattern and choose your Workspace or Working Set.

Ex: here's my selection. Here's a screenshot of that: Enter what you'd like to replace it "With". In my case you can see it says it is "Replacing matches in 4 files". Now click OK. Gabriel Staples Gabriel Staples Once you click on replace it will show as below.

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Mahi 12 12 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Tonny Madsen Tonny Madsen Thank you I solved this way. Unfortunately this does not help for multi-line text! Eric It works if you use regular expressions! For more granularity you can do the "File Search" then make multiple selections, right-click and go to "Replace Selected For a full answer and example with screenshots see here: stackoverflow. Brings you to File Search. Anonsage Anonsage 7, 3 3 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges.

Roland Tepp Roland Tepp 7, 10 10 gold badges 55 55 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges. Alireza Fattahi Alireza Fattahi Enter text, file pattern and choose your Workspace or Working Set. Ex: here's my selection. Here's a screenshot of that: Enter what you'd like to replace it "With".

In my case you can see it says it is "Replacing matches in 4 files". Now click OK. Gabriel Staples Gabriel Staples Once you click on replace it will show as below. Chaminda Bandara Chaminda Bandara 1, 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Feng Zhang Feng Zhang 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

Blasanka Blasanka First, make sure you are using the correct shortcuts -- the "next" command is ctrl-period, and the "previous" command is ctrl-comma from your comment, it looks like you are trying to use ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus instead.

Also, which version of Eclipse are you running? I typically run 3. I note that under 3. In Ray's screen shot of the Search dialog, note the "Working set" option in the Scope section -- click on the "Choose If you upgrade to Ganymede latest version of Eclipse the multi-file search is even better. It shows a break-down of each file in the results showing each line matched. This means you can review your search results more easily without opening each file and only jump to the files and lines you really need to.

Thanks man , it helped me a lot. Since eclipse doesn't comes equipped with "header file refactoring" , i used this and done with the job in a min :. Just type in the term and hit Replace or Replace All.

Support this Content! Want to get a copy of every new post? Use the form below to sign up for my newsletter. Archived Comments. Don't do much refactoring do you : I use this utility heavily, but never really on Selected Resources thanks for the tip about selecting the folder I use the Workspace Scope search all open projects and the Enclosing Projects current project you are working with. Also the shortcut to this dialog is Ctrl-H win What kills me about the search view is I can not for the life of me find out what the shortcut is to easily jump to the next or previous match.

If anyone has solutions for the last two questions, please share. Thanks Ezra, the single file option was the trick. Dallas, two things: First, make sure you are using the correct shortcuts -- the "next" command is ctrl-period, and the "previous" command is ctrl-comma from your comment, it looks like you are trying to use ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus instead.

Thanks for the tip on selecting the folder..