Find and replace, add or delete text inside multiple files at once.
Replace Text in Many Files is a sofware tool allows to find and replace, add or delete a text chunks within multiple files at once. The program can process batch search and modify operations within a great number of ASCII, Unicode and other text-based files.
It's exactly what I was looking for EXCEPT for one major gotcha.
Cons
No wildcard searches on the text. Therefore it's useless.
Summary
Quite a few of these search and replace utilities have this fundamental flaw, let me give you an example. Let's say you have a giant .html file full of tables that look something like this:
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>smith</td>
I want to insert a row here in mass on many files.
<td>Hackinsack NJM</td>
This is impossible with this program and many others like it that don't have wildcards. The only way this would work is if you could do a search and replace on this:
<tr>
<td>*</td>
<td>*</td>
Alas.