Top 15 FAR - Find And Replace Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

FAR automatically creates backups (unless you deselect this option) and is designed to operate on files dispersed over entire directory trees.
For your comfort you may define search strings that span multiple lines by just typing multiple lines - no obscure construct like "$\r?(?s:.)^" is required.

1. The Tagger

The Tagger The Tagger is an MP3 and AAC tagger for Mac OS X that combines powerful features such Discogs integration and regex find/replace with an intuitive and elegant interface.......

2. Multi Replacer

Multi Replacer 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 process you can save search results (data extraction).-......

3. Search and Replace

Search and Replace Don't worry about those many files where you have to change a few things! There's no need to open every single file and edit them manually, Search and Replace does it all for you!Search and Replace lets you create your own rule files for replacing strings in files or even......

4. RegExr

RegExr RegExr is an online tool for editing and testing Regular Expressions (RegExp / RegEx). It provides a simple interface to enter RegEx expressions, and visualize matches in real-time editable source text. It also provides a handy RegExp snippet sidebar with descriptions and usage examples to make it easier to learn......

5. Name Mangler

Name Mangler Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.Moreover, you can combine all of these using the Advanced renaming mode, which even comes with some extra features, such......

6. ack

ack Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.Ack ignores backup......

7. PyRegex

PyRegex PyRegex is an online Regular Expression tester for python dialect.......

8. RegexMagic

RegexMagic Use RegexMagic to generate complete regular expressions to your specifications by using RegexMagics flexible patterns, instead of the cryptic regex syntax.......

9. FSearch

FSearch FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.Note: The application is in an early development stage and still considered alphaFeatures* Instant (as you type) results* RegEx support* Filter support (only search for files, folders......

10. pyRenamer

pyRenamer pyRenamer is a batch renamer for GTK desktops. With pyRenamer you can change the name of several files at the same time easily.* You can use patterns to rename files.* You can use search & replace to rename files.* You can use common substitutions.* You can manually rename selected files.*......

11. Regularity

Regularity Regularity is a Mac desktop app for testing regular expressions in JavaScript.......

12. RegexRenamer

RegexRenamer RegexRenamer is a powerful but simple user-friendly graphical tool used to batch rename files using regular expressions. A regular expression (or regex) is simply text that contains special characters that together defines a pattern that can be used to match text, in this case filenames. Using the power of regexes......

13. File Renamer Basic

File Renamer Basic File Renamer - Rename Files. Free utility to rename files easily. Now includes Thumbnail support. Use this utility to preview your pictures before renaming......

14. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API.......

15. Regexp Testing Tool

Regexp Testing Tool Regexp testing tool allows to apply group of regexps to huge arrays of data (millions or so) in order to investigate search or search/replacement possibilities of regexp group.......