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.
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- Free • Open Source
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Switzerland
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- Windows
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- Chocolatey
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I download many youtube comments. Then remove trash from them to make them more readable. As a result, there are many blank lines that I want to merge. I know how to merge it one by one with Notepad2 and 3. But I wanted something that could merge blank lines all at once in all files. I tried many programs. DnGrep could not handle empty lines as expected. Even though I used it for the rest. This grepwin can handle blank lines with or without spaces transparently, as expected. I am very...
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Developed by
Stefan Küng Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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File Management, OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
- 1,853 Stars
- 198 Forks
- 39 Open Issues
- Updated Feb 20, 2025
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I've tried quite a few standalone regex search and replace tools but haven't found any I like more than this one. The main plus is that it uses PCRE syntax (yay!) which, I find is easier, more powerful, more featured than other syntaxes. (Several other tools use .NET's built-in regex syntax, which is not great.) It also has a couple of bonus variables that you can use in the replacement string. You can use it to search only. This is really useful if you want to test that your replacement string will behave as expected by copying one or more of the strings from the search results into the Test regex box.
I download many youtube comments. Then remove trash from them to make them more readable. As a result, there are many blank lines that I want to merge. I know how to merge it one by one with Notepad2 and 3. But I wanted something that could merge blank lines all at once in all files. I tried many programs. DnGrep could not handle empty lines as expected. Even though I used it for the rest. This grepwin can handle blank lines with or without spaces transparently, as expected. I am very satisfied, as I won't have to open over 30 txt files one by one with Notepad2. Instead I runs through them all at once with this.
it runs
it's around 3 times faster than astrogrep, but unlike astrogrep it can't show the text, only the list of files it is contained in.
It’s portable (always a plus!), lightweight, really fast. Just love it!
Simply put: it's the fastest tool of its kind and supports also regex! It's much faster than dnGrep too.
Also offers preview of matches and automatically supports Unicode, UTF-8 (and more) search too (so smart: you don't have to activate any option!)...
Portable. Super slim. Super fast. Powerful and competent. Has useful commandline options. Great external editor support. Just great.
GrepWin is a powerful text search and replace tool with regular expression support.