Coding Tutorial: How to Find and Replace in Multiple Files using Notepad++

Yan Sheng Huang explains how to find and replace in multiple files within any version of Windows using Notepad++. This alleviates having to deal with complicated methods such as connecting to a Linux server using SSH and using commands such as grep. This method of find and replace across multiple files will work if the files are all within one directory as well as if they are spread out into sub directories, sub sub directories, etc.

[JimmySlacksack]

an extra handy feature i got from AI to replace text across multiple documents. Here's how you can do it:


1. Open Notepad++.
2. Press `Ctrl + Shift + F` to open the "Find in Files" dialog box.
3. In the "Find what" field, enter the regular expression This will match any text that starts with `<postfx_exposure>` and ends with `</postfx_exposure>`.
4. In the "Replace with" field, enter `<postfx_exposure>YourNewDataHere</postfx_exposure>`, replacing `YourNewDataHere` with the data you want to use.
5. In the "Directory" field, select the directory where your files are located.
6. Make sure the "Regular expression" option is selected in the "Search Mode" section.
7. Click on "Replace in Files".

[les]

Was able to use this VERY handy dandy trick to save myself a day of work with manifest file syncing for my rendering software. Very much appreciate this video mate!

[vasily]

Splendid. I knew how to do a file by file find and replace. Now I know how to do multiple. Thanks!

[villagepottery]

Thanks Yan - good quick explanation of the find and replace ability of multiple files.

[misterbachelor]

Thank you - didn't know Notepad++ has this feature

[lesliematthews]

Very helpful thanks. one suggestion - try not to move the mouse and windows so much on the screen when you are just talking. It's distracting and hard to follow. But again, thanks! This was very helpful information

[zachgaming]

How about if I wanna change the text for all the files but I want to change different texts to none? like for example every file as “nick”: “(different names)” and i wanna change all those different names to none, how will I supposed to that?

[kalianaveen]

Thanks a lot. That is what i want for a long time..

[ccartmel]

I needed this and it has saved my a lot of work. Many Thanks.

[mohsin]

Can possible to replace multiple lines?

[arthur.obwolo]

Trying to edit multiple files saved in notepad (not notepad++) files. However, it does not bring up anything in the search results in notepad++ when I try to open up the folder containing those notepad files.

Any suggestions?

[Rowxstr]

how to replace lines with different values in multiple files..
for example on file 1 i have
emitter_duration 0.6
on file 2 i have
emitter_duration 3.5

i want to change both files values into (emitter_duration 6.0)

[unpredictableishere]

great vid but how do u do it with files

[blalajah]

Thanks for your post. I tried it this with Microsoft word and it worked but now I am getting an error when I tried to open any of the documents. Any idea how to correct it? I have word documents in multiple folders. Thanks.

[mosesmhillz]

thank you so much . the solution I was looking for.

[playboibosch]

saved me from editing 50 word over 1500 txt file

[jarosk]

Thank you man, your video helped me a lot

[BAKAman]

Hi there, Ive got a problem, Ive got 4k+ files where I need to switch few rows betwin them, like raw 4 with 6 and 10 with 21 for all the files, is there a way to do so ?

[md.arifurrahman]

Thank you, Thank you so much. I have tried, but is there any spell mistake it will not work. :)