Global Search and Replace for Obsidian

A plugin to do a global search and replace in all of your Obsidian vault files.

Features

• Search all of your vault's markdown files for a match
• Regex support
• Case-sensitive search support
• Replace match Enter or click
• Open note at match Ctrl+Enter on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Enter on Mac
• Cycle through matches using arrow keys

Installation

Through Obsidian community plugin browser

This plugin is available through obsidian's official plugin marketplace.

Manual

Download a release's main.js, styles.css, and manifest.json files and install it by pasting the files into the VAULT_PATH/.obsidian/plugins/global-search-and-replace folder (enable viewing hidden folders to be able to see the .obsidian folder!)

Usage

Use the command palette and activate the Global Search and Replace: Search and Replace in all files command.

Specifying a string as the replacement

The replacement string can include the following special replacement patterns:

Pattern	Inserts
$$	Inserts a "$".
$&	Inserts the matched substring.
$`	Inserts the portion of the string that precedes the matched substring.
$'	Inserts the portion of the string that follows the matched substring.
$n	Inserts the nth (1-indexed) capturing group where n is a positive integer less than 100.
$<Name>	Inserts the named capturing group where Name is the group name.

$n and $<Name> are only available if the pattern argument is a RegExp object. If the pattern is a string, or if the corresponding capturing group isn't present in the regex, then the pattern will be replaced as a literal. If the group is present but isn't matched (because it's part of a disjunction), it will be replaced with an empty string.

JSCopy to Clipboard

"foo" replace /(f)/,"$2"
// "$2oo"; the regex doesn't have the second group

"foo" replace "f","$1"
// "$1oo"; the pattern is a string, so it doesn't have any groups

"foo" replace /(f)|(g)/,"$2"
// "oo"; the second group exists but isn't matched