Replace String in all files in Eclipse

Tonny Madsen said it right, but sometimes this is too simplistic.

What if you want to be more selective in your replacements since not all replacements are correct for what you're trying to do?

Here's how to get more granularity to do the replacements only in certain folders, files, or instances:

First, do like he said:

• Click Search --> File... OR press Ctrl + H and choose the "File Search" tab.
• Enter text, file pattern and choose your Workspace or Working Set.

Then:

• Click Search
• When your results come up, make some folder, file, or instance selections by Ctrl + clicking on the ones you'd like to select. Ex: here's my selection. I've chosen 3 instances, 1 file, and 1 folder:

• Now, right-click on your selection and go to --> Replace Selected.... Here's a screenshot of that:

• Enter what you'd like to replace it "With". In my case you can see it says it is "Replacing 190 matches in 4 files". Now click OK.

Voilà!

References:

• Here's the tutorial I came across that taught me this: http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-do-a-find-and-replace-in-multiple-files-in-eclipse.html?page=2

ctrl + H  will show the option to replace in the bottom . 

Once you click on replace it will show as below

If you want to replace two lines of code with one line, then this does not work. It works in notepad++. I end up open all files in notepad++ and replaced all.

Ctrl+F gives me Find/Replace dialog box.

Or you can,

First Alt+A

Next Alt+F

Then press on Replace button.

If non of them worked:

Goto -> Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys and search for replace then you will see binding for Find and replace. In the bottom of that window, you can add your key to Binding text box. There you can add or edit any keys as shortcut.