[RoofusPennymore]

Is there any programs out there that will allow me to find and replace entire files?

[chabig]

The Finder?

[Moonray]

Find and replace files or their contents or text in their contents?

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[RoofusPennymore]

I have a bunch of index.html files located throughout various directories (hundreds). So I want to search through all the directories and replace those index.html files with new index.html files (redirect pages).

So I need to find the files, and replace them with new files.

[chabig]

The Finder will find these for you. Replacing them will be more difficult. As you rebuild these files it might be a lot easier to have one index.html file and make all the others aliases of that original. Then in the future you will just edit one file and the rest will automatically take care of themselves.

Chris

[Moonray]

You can use the find command in the terminal:

Code:
find /path/to/webserver-root -name "index.html" -exec cp /path/to/new/index.html {} \;

Have a look at man find first so you know what you're doing. And do a backup first.

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[speirsfr]

You can also use BBEdit's multi-file search and replace, with a filename filter in place, such that it will only match index.html files.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Moonray:
You can use the find command in the terminal:

Code:
find /path/to/webserver-root -name "index.html" -exec cp /path/to/new/index.html {} \;

Have a look at man find first so you know what you're doing. And do a backup first.

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I was going to recommend a shell script, but since you're only doing this once, that'll work nicely for what you want.

And, yes.. do back up, just in case.

[RoofusPennymore]

Originally posted by Moonray:
You can use the find command in the terminal:

Code:
find /path/to/webserver-root -name "index.html" -exec cp /path/to/new/index.html {} \;

Have a look at man find first so you know what you're doing. And do a backup first.

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The power of Unix at work! This worked perfectly.