Geek Software of the Week: fnr.exe – Find And Replace Tool
This is one of the most useful and cool GSotW’s I’ve found in a while! It is just mind-boggling useful! I was in need of a global find and replace text tool for multiple files, and this one fit the bill perfectly!
Plus, you can even use it to generate a command line string to do the same task repetitively.
Project Description
An open source tool to find and replace text in multiple files.
Features
- Single file download – fnr.exe (127kb)
- 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