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What's the best way to find and replace text in multiple files over FTP?

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Mar 15, 20267387 views
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How can you search and replace text in multiple files on an FTP server? Basically I need to change the Google Analytics information on a bunch of plain old HTML pages and I'm wondering if there is a way to do it without having to download all of the files, do the search and replace locally and then…

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As the comment says, ftp doesn't allow this. You probably really want the 'download all, replace, upload back'. The best I can think of is an editor that understands ftp. Behind the scenes, it's downloading the file, editing it locally, and then upl…

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