Search & Replace Master Alternatives

Search & Replace Master is described as 'Freeware. It looks through multiple files for a string or pattern and can also replace it with another string or pattern' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Search & Replace Master for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and PortableApps.com apps. The best Search & Replace Master alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Search & Replace Master are grepWin, grep, dnGREP and AstroGrep.

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  1. Notepad++ icon
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    Notepad++ is a free, open-source code editor supporting several languages, offering features like syntax highlighting, plugin support, dark mode, portability, privacy, and efficient resource usage, making it highly customizable and suitable for various programming needs.

    271 Notepad++ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  2. grepWin icon
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    grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

    37 grepWin alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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  3. grep icon
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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    47 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. dnGREP icon
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    dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    58 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. AstroGrep icon
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    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    43 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6.  4 likes

    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
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  7. Find and Replace (FNR) is an open source tool to find and replace text in multiple files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

    31 FAR - Find And Replace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    40 Advanced Find and Replace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. PowerGREP icon
     23 likes

    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    86 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. SeaGOAT icon
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    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. regexxer icon
     8 likes

    regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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