Replace Text AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like Replace Text

Replace Text is described as 'Formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Replace Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best Replace Text alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Replace Text are AstroGrep, dnGREP, Find and Replace (FNR) and grep.

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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 Replace Text.

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

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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

    Application type

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Find and Replace (FNR) icon

    Find and Replace (FNR)

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    Find and Replace (FNR) is an open source tool to find and replace text in multiple files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. grep icon

    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 Replace Text.

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  8. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • 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 Replace Text.

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  12. Advanced Find and Replace icon

    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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  13. regexxer icon

    regexxer

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    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 Replace Text.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryReplace Text is also Free and Proprietary
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    Text Replacer

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    Text Replacer allows performing mass replacement of multiple occurrences of text in selected files or folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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