Alternatives to Replace Text in Many Files for all platforms with any license

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...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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grep

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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- Discontinued Not updated since May 2010. Website doesn't work either.
AstroGrep

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and...

Free Open Source Windows
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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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...

Commercial Windows
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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Find Any File

Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

Free Mac OS X
File-search Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Windows
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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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...

Free Windows
File-search Non-Indexing search Add a feature

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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...

Free Personal Windows
File-search Non-Indexing search Portable Add a feature

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BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *...

Freemium Windows
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Search and replace Add a feature

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iFileX

iFileX's functionality and design is based on Mac OS early-era file search tools such as Find File and Sherlock, now replaced by Spotlight.

Free Mac OS X
File-search Add a feature

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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...

Commercial Windows
Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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- Discontinued Official site has been replaced with few sentences of text without links thanking for the past 25 years. The program is safely downloadable at CNET aka Download.com.
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...

Commercial Windows
Batch conversion Batch Editing Batch rename files Batch processing ... Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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FAR - Find And Replace

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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