Search & Replace with RegEx

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:11:44 -0700 schrieb tchurm at gmail.com:

> Hi Pythonistas,
> 
> Here's my problem: I'm using a version of MOOX Firefox
> (http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla/) that's been modified to run completely
> from a USB Stick. It works fine, except when I install or uninstall an
> extension, in which case I then have to physically edit the compreg.dat
> file in my profile directory, replacing all instances of Absolute Path
> links to relative ones. (And, yes, I have filed a Bugzilla report.)
> 
> For example, after installing a new extension, I change in compreg.dat
> 
> lines such as:
> 
> abs:J:\Firefox\Firefox_Data\Profiles\default.uyw\extensions\{0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}\components\nsForecastfox.js,1111185900000
> abs:J:\Firefox\Firefox_Data\Profiles\default.uyw\extensions\{c4dc572a-3295-40eb-b30f-b54aa4cdc4b7}\components\wml-service.js,1114705020000
> 
> to:
> 
> rel:nsForecastfox.js,1111185900000
> rel:wml-service.js,1114705020000

Hi,

some time ago I wrote "replace-recursive.py":

http://www.thomas-guettler.de/scripts/replace_recursive.py.txt

Maybe this helps you,

  Thomas

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Thomas Güttler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/