Re: [foxboro] What is tool for converting entire directories of FoxView displays to .G format?
- From: "Russ Kaiser" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:25:09 -0400
List,
The display task I was tackling was changing legacy historian name
references within existing Foxview displays to their corresponding AIM
historian names. I converted entire directories to .G format and then used
a windows based search and replace that I downloaded yesterday to replace
the historian names.
Next week we are taking out two Sun boxes that are still running historians.
We have had duplicate AIM historians for a couple of years now, but many of
the displays still referenced the old legacy historians. Rather than edit a
couple hundred displays and probably 1000 trend objects, I chose to do it
this way.
For those that are wondering, the text replace tool I finally ended up using
was called "Actual Search & Replace (ActualSR.exe)" and it worked well.
I am sure the few hours I spent yesterday would have taken a few days had I
edited the displays individually via FoxDraw or live via FoxView.
Thanks all for the help,
Russ
>Russ,
>The one within Foxdraw will do it, or you can use the command
>line tool fdf_g. On unix boxes I usually use ed for doing
>scripted search and replace within existing files.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kevin
>
>On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Russ Kaiser
><russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Never mind,
>>
>> I figured it out, I had no idea the tool within foxdraw
>would do more
>> than
>> 1
>> file at a time. Now does anyone know of a text editor that will do
>> search and replace on an entire directory of files?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Russ
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