{"id":1000364,"date":"2007-01-14T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/tech\/2007\/01\/14\/generic-grep-tool\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:22:09","slug":"generic-grep-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/tech\/2007\/01\/14\/generic-grep-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Grep Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/greptool.png\" alt=\"BBEdit search window\" width='586' height='435' \/><\/p>\n<p>Requirements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Transparent handling of line endings<\/li>\n<li> Able to recursively descend through various directories<\/li>\n<li> File filters to determine what to search<\/li>\n<li> Autodetection of character encodings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could write this myself in Java, but not by my deadline. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}