[GNC] find AND REPLACE?

[Glenn Bordonada]

 Pardon a naive question from a newbie.
I noted that I can save my .gnucash file into .xml file which I can edit with a text editor or write text processing programs to extract the data in various ways.
Can anybody tell me what are the pros and cons for such a change?
Regards,Glenn

    On Friday, April 13, 2018, 1:15:14 AM GMT+8, C M Reinehr <cmr at reinehr.net> wrote:  
 
 I'm still a novice at GnuCash but from previous discussions I do not 
believe that there is a global find and replace utility. But two ideas 
come to mind. If your file format is XML, isn't that a text file? If it 
is, you could use a text editor ('vi' if you're on Linux) to do a global 
search & replace. Or, if you are using SQLite, you could use the dump 
utility to create a text SQL file and, likewise, use a text editor. Then 
rebuild your GnuCash file from the edited SQL dump file.

HTH!

CMR


On 04/09/2018 11:11 PM, Paul Costan wrote:
> I am looking for the command(s) or work-around to accomplish what I 
> used to use in Quicken as Find and Replace.  Specifically, after 
> downloading multiple months of transactions from my credit union into 
> a simple checkbook ledger, I could use the Quicken "find" to select 
> all transactions with description "Safeway" and then select from them 
> to "replace" the category to "Groceries". I'm good in Gnucash up 
> through the Find part, can't figure out how to easily set the Account 
> without a lot of keystrokes. Didn't see anything in the 
> manual/help/faq.  Suggestions? Thanks.
>
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