Replace Text Alternatives

Replace Text is described as 'Formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Replace Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Alpine Linux apps. The best Replace Text alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Replace Text are grep, dnGREP, AstroGrep and ugrep.

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  1. wReplace icon
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    Free program, which allows you to change/replace multiple letters and phrases at a time. It is easy to create and save lists of changes/replacements, so that you can reuse them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Batch RegEx icon
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    Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more! Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and tips.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. TexFinderX is a freeware tool to search and replace text inside entire folders.

    TexFinderX is MacOS X, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and Seven compatible.

    Main features Search and replace text - with regular expression or not - in entire folders with the ability to filter de.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. Word Batch Replacer is the great tool to perform batch search & replace operation on a series of MS Word documents. It can save you a bunch of time comparing to manually performing such a task.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Word
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  5. Actual Search And Replace is an advanced tool to perform the search and replace operations across multiple text files. It supports the regular expressions syntax. The batch replace operation allows to execute a lot of various replacements with one click.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Baloo icon
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    Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Text Workbench is the universal search and replace tool featuring full Unicode and UTF-8 support. Text Workbench will save you hours of manual editing you spend to update your files at your local disks or on FTP server.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool.

    • Search for files using powerful text matching commands called Regular Expressions.
    • You can search/replace one or more than one information on one or more than one file resources.
    • After the searcing proce.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. DeskRule icon
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    Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Rummage icon
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    Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage allows for literal or regex searches and has configurations for limiting the files etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. KFileReplace is a KDE utility that replace some strings with others in a lot of files in an only operation. Then it's very easy to update some URLs, filenames, ... which are written in all files of a project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. String Replacer for Mac allows to find and replace a list of strings inside files and folders directly or in batch mode. It allows to operate on multiple files using a multiple string couple replacement list. It works with just a single click or using drag and drop.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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