Advanced Find and Replace!

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Advanced Find and Replace alternatives

  • grepWin

  • grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders. The use of regular expressions allows for a very powerful search and replace.

    tags: Portable command-line-start file-search pcre regular-expression
  • AstroGrep

  • AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    tags: file-search regular-expression grep
  • Searchmonkey

  • A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    tags: desktop-search index desktop-index
  • PowerGREP

  • Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain text or regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, ...

    tags: Portable file-search grep perl regular-expression
  • dnGREP

  • dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File Explorer, and much more.

    tags: Portable file-search grep recursive regular-expression
  • Find Any File

  • Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:Has a new hierarchical view of the found items, making it much easier to browse 100s of items.Can run as root user, finding really any file on your disk, even those that are hidden from normal users.Can save queries and run them again later.Is quite fast: About 10 times faster than EasyFind 4.0.1 when searching for a file name (Mac Pro with 2 million files, searching "httpd.conf": EasyFile: 150s, this app: 15s) »

    tags: file-search find-files finder
  • XSearch

  • XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the words", "Exact phrase", "Without the words" etc, you also can search files in hexadecimal. XSearch also automatically supports to search words in files in Unicode or UTF8 format. XSearch supports to search for files in specified size, date time, not like Windows search, you also can specify the exact size (in bytes, KB, MB or GB), the exact date and/or time for searching. The search result can be saved to file and read back at any time as you want. XSearch provides a Hex View tool that allow you to view the contents of the file in hexadecimal. XSearch supports most of the file operations in Explorer such as Copy, Cut, Rename, Drag and drop etc. »

    tags: computer-files-search file-search local-files-search no-index search-computer
  • BareGrep

  • A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save, name and manage text search patterns * Interactive, incremental search * Extract data with capturing groups * Tabular presentation of search results * Export/copy search results in many formats * Search files of any size (> 2GB) * Many file formats (Win32, Unix, Microsoft IIS logs) * Flexible configuration options and storage * Single small executable, no installer »

    tags: search-files regular-expression grep text-search recursive
  • Ultra File Search

  • Ultra File Search is a portable non-indexing Search Utility which is able to find quickly Files, Folders and Text on your Local, Network, DVD, CD-ROM, USB Hard or Flash Drives.

    tags: Portable file-management file-search lan-search network-search
  • Windows Grep

  • The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.

    tags: Discontinued filesystem regular-expression search-and-replace
  • Batch Files

  • Replace, insert, delete, copy, move, format, extract, convert, encode, encrypt text and bytes in multiple files. Process 1000s files using multiple CPU cores in manual, automatic/continuous, triggered/scheduled, or console modes, or directly from Windows Explorer right-click menu. Save files to output directory specified using either absolute or relative path, with original or new name defined by a mask. Select files for processing based on their name, dates, size, and contents using advanced file search supporting RegEx and advanced wildcards. Optionally merge together, split all, or zip processed files. Perform different operations on different files with conditional processing and process branching. Complete support for Regular Expressions (RegEx) and Unicode throughout the program. Detailed processing logs are available in both user interface and log files. Run multiple program instances simultaneously. »

    tags: Portable automation batch-conversion batch-editing batch-encoder
  • regexxer

  • regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    tags: development grep search-and-replace
  • Batch Word Replace

  • Replace text in, add or remove content, and edit thousands of Word documents in doc and docx formats, PDFs, RTF documents, and other text documents.

    tags: Portable batch-editing batch-replace doc-to-docx document-converter
  • Batch File Replace

  • Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files.- Includes multi-line text search & replace with wildcards, case-sensitivity, and match selection options.- Full support for Regular Expressions with syntax highlighting and match substitutions.- Built-in hex editor allows for easy entry of binary data to search & replace bytes.- Perform multiple replacements easily by entering plain-text or RegEx-based search-replace pairs into grid or import them from a file.- Process 1000s of files using multiple CPU cores in manual, automatic/continuous, triggered/scheduled, or console modes, or directly from Windows Explorer right-click menu.- Save files to output directory specified using either absolute or relative path, with original or new name defined by a mask.- Select files for processing based on their name, dates, size, and contents using advanced file search supporting RegEx and advanced wildcards.- Optionally merge together, split all, or zip processed files.- Perform different operations on different files with conditional processing and process branching.- Complete support for Regular Expressions (RegEx) and Unicode throughout the program.- Detailed processing logs are available in both user interface and log files.- Run multiple program instances simultaneously. »

    tags: Portable automation batch-editing batch-mode batch-processing