Replace Text in Many Files Alternatives

Replace Text in Many Files is described as 'Tool you can use to search and modify text inside multiple files at once. The program includes full Unicode and different character encodings support. With Replace Text in Many Files it's easy to find and modify a description of something or a' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Replace Text in Many Files for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Replace Text in Many Files alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Replace Text in Many Files are AstroGrep, dnGREP, Search Monkey and Find and Replace (FNR).

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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

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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    • grepWin is the most popular Windows alternative to Replace Text in Many Files.

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

    • grepWin is Free and Open SourceReplace Text in Many Files is Paid 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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    • 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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    • Windows
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    Advanced Find and Replace

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  6. Search Monkey icon

    Search Monkey

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Search Monkey is the most popular Linux alternative to Replace Text in Many Files.

    • Search Monkey is Free and Open SourceReplace Text in Many Files is Paid and Proprietary
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    • grep is the most popular Mac alternative to Replace Text in Many Files.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceReplace Text in Many Files is Paid and Proprietary
  10. FAR - Find And Replace icon

    FAR - Find And Replace

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    FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. XSearch icon

    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

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    • Windows
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  12. PowerGREP icon

    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

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    • Windows
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    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to Replace Text in Many Files.

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  13. 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

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    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

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    • Mac
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  15. 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.
    72 BareGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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