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I am seeking tools (especially GUI tools) that will perform regular expression, grep like search and replaces. Ideally the tool would be open source, multiplatform and would provide the functionality of BBEdit:

Requirements include:

• Transparent handling of line endings
• Able to recursively descend through various directories
• File filters to determine what to search
• Autodetection of character encodings

I could write this myself in Java, but not by my deadline. Any suggestions?

Lafreniere Park, Jefferson Parish, 2006-12-27

Game over. Sony has forfeited and Blu-Ray has lost.
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You sometimes see this error message when attempting to run a Perl, Python, or shell script that uses a shebang line to find the interpreter. For example,

$ hello.pl
-bash: hello.pl: command not found

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Woody Leonhard notes that:

with Windows Vista and potentially Office 2007 that changes – the activation system will occasionally check if the product key is still ‘legal’. If Microsoft decides that the product key for your software has been stolen and misused then your copy of Vista or possibly Office 2007 can be disabled remotely (after a warning period).

He’s worried about piracy. I.e. what happens if somebody else “borrows” your key, so Microsoft cuts you off through no fault of your own. I’m wondering what happens when the U.S. Government leans on Microsoft to cut off the keys to the latest alleged seeker of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Lafreniere Park, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 2006-12-27