Hi / Moin!
Is there an option to replace all occurrences with the search an replace action? Like replaceAll() in Javascript?
Thanks,
Thomas
Hi Thomas, welcome to the forum!
Take a look at Search And Replace In A Note – it supports JS regex syntax, so have at it 
Thx! I will try this. It’s a bit complicated to convert ideas for a Python script into actions.
It works for a single note. My idea now would be to search and replace in all notes in one folder. How can I build a loop?
You have several options here. First, you can iterate over all files in your vault, and only work with those whose path start with a particular folder name:
Also, you could use OmniSearch (see How to use Omnisearch for search syntax):
Here, I’ve omitted the “Repeat With” block for brevity, but Search Notes With Omnisearch returns a list of file paths which you can loop through.
HTH!
Get List Of All Notes might run into trouble if your vault is extraordinarily large. In this case, the OmniSearch way might be worth a shot.
Does it visibly hang at a particular step, or does it just run forever? If the former: Can you tell at which step it is hanging?
I guess my vault ist very large. The Action ist hanging on the second step.
Yeah, I guess the companion plugin exploded due to overload. I’ll take a note here, this shouldn’t just hang but communicate back.
I recommend the OmniSearch route, then, because it finds the applicable files in Obsidian before handing that list back to AFO, whereas Get List Of All Notes requests a list of all note paths from Obsidian, which seems to cause the problem you’re experiencing.
Thanks for your help. In the meantime I have written a little Python script. Can be started via an shell shortcut 
import re
import os
regex = “- [x].*\n”
vault_directory = PATH_TO_VAULT_AND_FOLDER
txt_files = [file for file in os.listdir(vault_directory) if file.endswith(‘.md’)]
for file in txt_files:
my_file = open(file,‘r’)
content = (my_file.read())
my_file.close()
result = re.sub(regex,“”,content)
my_file = open(file,‘w’)
my_file.write(result)
my_file.close()
Hah, yes. My first impulse was going with sd via shell but I figured since you’ve asked in the AFO support forum, you were looking for a decidedly AFO solution.
The first intention was to do with AFO for learning purpose. But on the other hand is a Python script a much faster way for me