Eluent Replacer is a text replacement utility that allows you to replace some text according to a set of rules (including reg-exp and other advanced features) in hundreds of files.

It will take you many hours to do it manually.

Features:

• Literal text search and replace.
• Regular expression search and replace using Perl regular expressions.
• Multiple Replace Rules per task, that can be saved for later use in a Replace Plan.
• Perl scripting within Replace Rules and Replace Plans.
• Interactive as well as non-interactive modes of operation.

You can even store common replace-tasks with a set of affected directories as "task plans"... very fancy indeed… – a nice explorer plugin allows you to perform that actions from any directory you are in currently…

According to the marketing hype it works with ALL files! Yes – but make sure you change the text-files back to Unix-mode (Ultra-Edit-function) before you upload them to your webserver again… that sucking thing took me some hours of finding out why a "premature end of script header" was raised after the batch update… hell…

Anyway – this tool looks like my next purchase… give it a try!