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Simple free commandline text search and replace tool?

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criss:
Perhaps XChangeCL: http://www.sadmansoftware.com/xchangecl/

I did not try it, but I use daily their Search Program which is great and the author is very resposive.

Sundog29:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/>

But if you want an app that provides an easy-to-use GUI for building & saving sets of search-replace operations -- which you can then call from a command-line -- consider BK ReplaceEm.

This 32-bit Windows freeware application hasn't been supported or distributed by its developer Bill Klein (BK) for a number of years. But it was once considered among the very best search-n-replace apps (free or not). And I think it still deserves such consideration.

For a rather complicated example of the very sort which originally inspired BK to create his application, see: <http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14admin/bkreplacem/index.html
-skas (December 02, 2008, 07:58 AM)
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BK ReplaceEM seems to have been republished by ecobyte software as Replace Text v2.2 (free).
http://www.ecobyte.com/replacetext/

Ross MacGregor:
I've written just such a tool for Windows. It is easy to use yet has many features that many people eventually need. It supports Unicode, can search multiple files, and is small, fast and free.

https://sites.google.com/site/simplesearchreplace/

rjbull:
I've written just such a tool for Windows.-Ross MacGregor (January 23, 2013, 02:32 PM)
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Thanks for telling us about this.  Does the Options file allow one to enter multiple search-and-replace pairs?

Curt:
It has the following features:

    Easy to use in Windows batch files
    Supports Windows and Unix line endings
    Unicode support
    Accepts multiple search/replace arguments-SSR 2
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