Best tool for find/replace in output HTM files?

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TR Lisa
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Best tool for find/replace in output HTM files?

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I need to do a find and replace in all of my output HTM topic files, but it needs to find and replace in the source code. Can anyone recommend a free tool for this?

Back story. My master page somehow got a random "k" in the top left corner, so now every topic has that "k". Obviously I can't find and replace on just "k", so I need to grab some of the code around it to make sure I'm replacing this "k" only. For example: <body>k<script src="https://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>

I just built and copied 3GB of output files to the staging server, which takes 10+ hours to copy, and THEN noticed the offending "k". Re-building and re-starting that 10-hour copy is not desirable :) Really needed to push the files live today.
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roboHAL
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Re: Best tool for find/replace in output HTM files?

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Try getting a hold of a free version (there are pay-for versions as well) of Windows Grep.
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wclass
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Re: Best tool for find/replace in output HTM files?

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Notepad++ is free for windows and could do the job.
I also have a paid-for version of the FAR Help tool that can do just about anything with find/replace.
Margaret Hassall - Melbourne
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TR Lisa
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Re: Best tool for find/replace in output HTM files?

Post by TR Lisa »

Grep to the rescue! Thank you for saving me the time of searching for and trying out different tools to find the one that worked. I'll take a look at Notepad + + too but grep was the first one I tried and worked exactly as expected. So rare these days!

And lesson learned. Never smoke test a big project on a Friday. It's amazing the things you see on Monday morning that were "invisible" on Friday afternoon. :)
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