Using Find and Replace on MacOSX

Terminal - Multiple Find / Replace

If you want to take a walk on the geek side, try popping open terminal from spotlight. I recently needed to parse a webarchive to find and replace absolute paths with relative paths. Ultimately the following worked:

find . -name "*.htm*" -exec  sed -ie 's/href="\//href=".\//g' {} \;

Using terminal one can issue many Unix commands. One way to get help is to type the 'man' - short for manual and the name of the command:

So in the instance above, one  might type:

man find (shows the manual page for find)

man sed (shows the manual page for stream editor)