{"id":787,"date":"2017-03-31T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-04-05T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:25:39","slug":"texfinderx-a-very-helpful-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"TexFinderX: A Very Helpful Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 0 4px 4px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"images\/stories\/texfinderxicon.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Here&#8217;s a quick shout out to a great utility, <a href=\"http:\/\/sw.ixoft.com\/texfinderx\/\" target=\"_blank\">TexFinderX<\/a>. &nbsp;This app also runs on both Macs and Windows.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 4px 4px 0;\" alt=\"\" src=\"images\/stories\/texfinderxmain.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>So what does it do and why is it so great? &nbsp;This handy app will search inside a folder of files, for any text you ask it to search for. &nbsp;You can leave it at that or also use it to replace that searched for text in each file, with another text. &nbsp;It can be one word or as much as you want to search for and replace. &nbsp;This simple description however does not do it justice and you should visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/sw.ixoft.com\/texfinderx\/\" target=\"_blank\">developer&#8217;s site<\/a> to find out the full extent of what it can do. &nbsp;I use it in coding. &nbsp;For example if you&#8217;ve ever needed to rename a variable used in a script to avoid a conflict somewhere else. &nbsp;I code mostly by hand, I just prefer it. &nbsp;Yet when you know something like a variable exists in multiple files, that can quickly become tedious to root each instance out. &nbsp;TexFinderX makes ultra quick and painless work from the task. &nbsp;It has saved me a lot of time over the years and I highly recommend it. &nbsp;It&#8217;s donationware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick shout out to a great utility, TexFinderX. &nbsp;This app also runs on both Macs and Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,19,18,16,30],"tags":[54,56,55],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-favorite-mac-apps","category-mac","category-pc","category-technology","category-web-development","tag-app-review","tag-coding","tag-utility"],"views":2225,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}