Batch File Replace AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like Batch File Replace

Batch File Replace is described as 'Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match substitutions; built-in hex editor to replace bytes; wildcards and case-sensitivity; Unicode' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Batch File Replace for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best Batch File Replace alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Batch File Replace are AstroGrep, dnGREP, grep and ugrep.

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  1. grepWin icon

    grepWin

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    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.

    35 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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    • grepWin is the most popular Windows alternative to Batch File Replace.

    • grepWin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Batch File Replace.

    • grepWin is Free and Open SourceBatch File Replace is Freemium and Proprietary
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  2. AstroGrep icon

    AstroGrep

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    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.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. dnGREP icon

    dnGREP

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    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...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Advanced Find and Replace

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    grep

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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    • grep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Batch File Replace.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceBatch File Replace is Freemium and Proprietary

  7. ugrep

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    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
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    XSearch

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    PowerGREP

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    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to Batch File Replace.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryBatch File Replace is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Advanced Find and Replace

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    Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Find Any File

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    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:

    84 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. BareGrep icon

    BareGrep

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    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
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. Find in Files (quick search text) icon

    Find in Files (quick search text)

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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to Batch File Replace.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryBatch File Replace is Freemium and Proprietary
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