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| − | The [[mw:Extension:Replace_Text|Extension:Replace_Text]] provides a special page (at [[Special:ReplaceText]]) to allow administrators to do a global string find-and-replace on all the content pages of a wiki. It's a global search and replace tool that covers all content in the database and multi-media files. It is obviously useful in many circumstances. It features [[regular | + | The [[mw:Extension:Replace_Text|Extension:Replace_Text]] provides a special page (at [[Special:ReplaceText]]) to allow administrators to do a global string find-and-replace on all the content pages of a wiki. It's a global search and replace tool that covers all content in the database and multi-media files. It is obviously useful in many circumstances. It features [[regular expressions]] support and shows a list of candidate matches before actually doing anything making it safer to 'test' a search and replace operation. |
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Revision as of 01:14, 14 January 2016
Replace text The Extension:Replace_Text provides a special page (at Special:ReplaceText) to allow administrators to do a global string find-and-replace on all the content pages of a wiki. It's a global search and replace tool that covers all content in the database and multi-media files. It is obviously useful in many circumstances. It features regular expressions support and shows a list of candidate matches before actually doing anything making it safer to 'test' a search and replace operation.
