A couple of months ago I set out to find a simple find and replace tool that I could use when rolling out my projects. For ex. to change various settings in config files to support dev/qa/prod environment.
Where is that “Find And Replace” option in windows?
It doesn’t exist at this time.
I was looking for something that would have the following features:
- Simple UI to make sure that find/replace does what I need it to
- Command line to run find/replace using batch file.
What are the alternatives?
There are many tools available, but they all have the following major issues:
- Out of date, no updates support for at least a year
for ex. http://www.divlocsoft.com/
- Bad documentation if any. Many apps mentions that they have command line support, but to find out how it works takes too much effort.
- Too many features. I just need to type in a couple of fields and click on Run, not to learn a new language.
for ex.
http://www.powergrep.com/
grep/sed variants in windows
- No access to code. Many tools have 90% of what I need, but if I need just a bit more (support for multi-line) – there is not much I can do.
Open source “Find and Replace” is here!
Since I couldn’t find a tool that would have both: simple UI and well documented command line interface, I decided to introduce my own. It is available on CodePlex and fully free to use, modify, etc…
http://findandreplace.codeplex.com/