A former work colleague of mine ran into a problem at every year’s end. He was the owner of a website that consisted of many static html files. There was no dynamic content and he faced the problem that he needed to replace the copyright notice on all html files at the end of the year so that the new year would replace the former year.
He replaced the information manually – and probably still is – which is a lot of repetitive work. There are tools to aid the user in handling text replacement tasks and Replace Text is one of them.
Replace Text is a text replacement software program for the Windows operating system that can replace text in multiple files at once. The program has been designed to work with all kinds of text files including plain text files but also html or php files to name a few.
All text replacement operations are handled in groups which remain in the program even after the text replacement operation has finished. This gives the user lots of flexibility. The work colleague for instance could use the same group in every year and change the replacement text to reflect the new year.
Single or multiple files and even complete directories can be added to each group. It is possible to use include and exclude filters to perform the text replacement only on the desired file types.
Replace Text can be configured to save the processed files in another location on the hard drive or to create a file backup of the files so that it is possible to keep the original files before they have been altered.
The software supports a variety of text replacement operations from standard string replacements to exact matches, ranged searches and regular expressions. Standard string replacements can be configured in a few seconds by entering the original and replacement text.
Replace Text is a free software program for the Windows operating system that can replace text in multiple files at once. Its advanced features make it a prime choice for users who need a text replacement program.
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i personally use “Extended Search and Replace” of CFI shelltoys. works the same i think :/
Another good one is seeker: http://www.veign.com/application.php?appid=104
Been using that for a couple of years.
Normally I used command line or shell script.
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Thank you,
Excellent program, successor to BK ReplaceEm. Used it many times and it helped me with many jobs.
Р.S. Used it since 2001.
this feature exists in Notepad++
Just downloaded it, not exactly sure why it was trying to run 2 sets of replaces at the same time, but basically it did the trick, updating old Google Analytics code to new in close to 100 pages, and replacing another chunk of code by something new. I reckon it saved me a couple of hours of boring edits, not to mention the potential for human errors.
Tony it is ideal for that. I too have used it for a HTML based site and editing of code on all of the site’s pages.