Find & Replace It! Presentation

What is Find & Replace It! ?

Summary

findreplaceit_icon_128.pngFind & Replace It! is a powerful, cross-platform text file processor. It allows you to perform very complex batch replacements inside text files of any size. It supports regular expression syntax and dozens of encodings. It  can batch processing the encoding of files, as well as style of end-of-line.

Read on to discover the main features of Find & Replace It! Alternatively, you can dive into the screenshot gallery for a quick preview of its capabilities. If you want to go deeper and learn more about Find & Replace It!  we suggest that you have a look on the Demos & Tutorials and/or the User Manual (PDF).

Main Features

The list below describes some of the key features of Find & Replace It!:

* Find and replace across files
* Can search fixed string expressions as well as wildcard and regular expressions
* Handles text encoding while displaying, reading and writing file contents, including multi bytes encodings like Unicode
* Preserves line endings while processing files
* Preserves BOM while processing Unicode files
* Allows you to perform dynamic replacements based on found expression captures
* Provides built-in processing function for dynamic replacements (e.g. convert captured expressions to lower case, Base64 encoding, Hex encoding, UTF-8 encoding, etc.)
* Provides a JavaScript like interface to customize replacements on the fly by script processing
* Displays matched expressions reports for file search/replace operations 
* Full featured dynamic preview of matched expressions and replacements
* Can convert text encoding
* Can convert end-of-lines (Windows, Unix, Macintosh, Unicode)
* Detects text encoding and line endings of files
* Provides advanced filtering options for selecting files that need to be processed, including file name filters and file path exclusion filters
* Allows you to load and save expressions to find, replacement definitions and file filters
* Handles huge files (> 10 GB)
* Regular expression editor / tester.
* Fully multithreaded for fast processing and responsiveness
* Allows you to cancel long operations
* GUI is totally modular
* Can save your file filters, regular expressions, replacement patterns, preview settings, etc.
* Create backup files
* Export results
* Cross-platform: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Supported Platforms

Here is a non-exhaustive list of supported platforms:

  • MS Windows:
    • Windows 98 [not tested]
    • Windows NT 4 [not tested]
    • Windows 2000 [not tested]
    • Windows XP
    • Windows Vista
  • Mac OS X Intel:
    • Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up [not tested]
    • Mac OS X 10.4.x
    • Mac OS X 10.5.x
    Mac OS X PowerPC:
    • Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up [not tested]
    • Mac OS X 10.4.x [not tested]
    • Mac OS X 10.5.x
  • Linux:
    • Ubuntu 8.04
    • Ubuntu 9.04
    • Fedora 11.0
    • openSuse 11.0
    • all recent Linux distribution based on GNOME or KDE desktop [not tested, except for the ones listed above]

NOTES:

  • The platforms noted as [not tested] in the list, are platforms on which the software should work but with no warranty. All development tools used in this software are certified on these non-tested platforms but we didn't check by ourself. Most of these platforms are pretty old, that's why there are not actively supported.
  • The Linux installer requires the following commands: bzip2, lzma, xdg-mime, xdg-desktop-menu, xdg-icon-resource. If one of them is missing, the installation will stop and you might have to manually remove the installation folder.

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