Sunday, 5 January 2020

windows explorer - What is the easiest way to find and replace text in 20 text files in a directory?


I have 20 text files with various extensions in a directory.


I want to replace "nnn" with "ooo" in all files.


I could import them into a project in Eclipse or Visual Studio to replace them all but that is overkill and would add other meta files etc.


What is a simple way to do this, I'm thinking: select all files, right click, choose some tool called (e.g. "QuickReplacer") and fill in find and replace, click and done.


Does anyone know of a tool like this?



Answer



GrepWin would do this among others, and it is a Explorer plugin.


However there is quite a big array of different applications available that can do this.


This SO thread on the topic also suggest WinGrep as an option.


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