Geek Software of the Week: FNR! (Update)

This is an old favorite, that I “re-discovered” this week when I needed to update a lot of exact match text in a whole BUNCH of text files. Man, this thing is awesome!

FNR – Find and Replace Tool

“An open source tool to find and replace text in multiple files.

Features

• Single file download – fnr.exe (181kb)
• Replace text in multiple files using windows application or through command line
• Find Only to see where matches are found
• Case-sensitive searching
• Searching for files in one directory or recursing sub-directories
• Regular expressions
• Find and replace multi-line text
• Generate command line button to create command line text to put in batch file
• Command line help
• Unit tests of Find/Replace engine”