Gedit Plugin To Search And Replace In Multiple Files

Advanced Find / Replace is a plugin for Gedit for easily search and replace in multiple documents. It currently works with all opened documents and all the files in a directory you select.

When searching in multiple files, the plugin can display a bottom panel (View > Bottom Pane) which displays the row matching your search for each file in the selected directory.

Install Advanced find / replace plugin for Gedit

Installing Advanced Find / Replace is very easy: download the plugin, extract the archive and then run the install.sh script. To do all this from the command line, copy/paste the following commands:

cd
wget http://advanced-find.googlecode.com/files/advanced_find-0.5.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf advanced_find-0.5.1.tar.gz
cd advanced_find-0.5.1
./install.sh

Then you must activate the plugin: go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins and enable "Advanced Find/Replace". Once installed, you'll find it under Search > Advanced Find / Replace.