update-registration.sh

#!/bin/bash
# run this script with one or more arguments that are the directories that hold the code files for
# the objects you want to update.

dirs=$@

appname='YourAppName'

objs='
PotentialAdvection
EFieldAdvection
CoeffParamDiffusion
...
'

actions='
ConvDiffMetaAction meta_action
AddLotsOfAuxVariablesAction meta_action
...
'

for obj in $objs; do
    find $dirs | grep "/${obj}\.C$" | xargs perl -0777 -i'' -pe 's/(template <>\nInputParameters\nvalidParams<(\w*)>\(\))/registerMooseObject\("'"$appname"'", \2\);\n\n\1/igs'
done

while read action task; do
    find $dirs | grep "/${action}\.C$" | xargs perl -0777 -i'' -pe 's/(template <>\nInputParameters\nvalidParams<(\w*)>\(\))/registerMooseAction\("'"$appname"'", \2, "'"$task"'"\);\n\n\1/igs'
done <<< "$actions"