Adding header to multiple files

Question

I have a bunch of files that are saved in a .pg format. I can open and edit them using notepad++.

I want to prepend in every file the same header. Is there a regular expression that could select all text in a file so that I could search and replace to add my header?

So that

Some text in file 1

Some text in file 2

... becomes

becomes

Header
Some text in file 1

Header
Some text in file 2

...

looks like something you could do using cat/type - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60244/is-there-replacement-for-cat-on-windows — Leo, Sep 12 '14 at 14:49
`\A`(beginning of string) you can prepend your `Header` text. Search-replace on `\A` and add `Header\n`. This might not work in all editors tho, so I'm not sure if it will work on a file's contents. — , Sep 12 '14 at 14:49
Possible duplicate of [How to replace only first instance of text in notepad++ in multiple files?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15848690/how-to-replace-only-first-instance-of-text-in-notepad-in-multiple-files) — AdrianHHH, Sep 16 '16 at 08:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 12 '14 at 14:55

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I think this should work,

Regex:

(?s)^

Replacement string:

Header\n

answered Sep 12 '14 at 14:55

Avinash Raj

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '16 at 19:15

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Find:

(.*)^

Replace:

THIS IS THE FOOTER

Be sure you check the . matches newline box in the Search Mode box (as well as selecting Regular expression).

answered Sep 15 '16 at 19:15

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 12 '14 at 14:55

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You can use this search/replace:

search: ^
replace: Header\n

answered Sep 12 '14 at 14:55

Casimir et Hippolyte

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This adds Header before every line of every file. – Jean-Sébastien Sep 12 '14 at 15:12
@Jean-Sébastien: You must use a single replace, not a replaceall. – Casimir et Hippolyte Sep 12 '14 at 15:19
To search and replace in all files in a given folder, there seems to be only a replace all with notepad++. – Jean-Sébastien Sep 12 '14 at 15:24

Adding header to multiple files

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