Regular expressions (regex) enable incredibly specific searches, such as words with a specific number of letters or sequence of vowels, or 'cats' when preceded by 'house' or 'wild.' With special characters, groupings, and syntax, it's a science unto itself. It can replace whole strings of text in compatible files and documents, such as text files. It essentially adds a sophisticated interface to the grep command-line search tool developed for Unix and used in Linux, MacOS, and other operating systems, including Windows. If you would like to make changes to grepWin, get the source code here.Power users will love GrepWin, a free search-and-replace tool that enables regular expression searches from context menus in Explorer.

You can also integrate grepWin into Visual Studio, the wiki explains how. The command line parameters are listed on a separate page. Make sure to search all issues, not just the open issues at the time. If you want to report a bug or request a feature, use our issue tracker to file a new issue or add a comment to an existing one. That means a double-click will open the file, and a right-click will show you the default shell menu for that file. The file list behaves a lot like the common Windows explorer. Once you've added some presets, you can easily retrieve them again from the presets dialog.Īfter a successful search or replace, the matching files are listed at the bottom of the dialog.

Since regular expressions can sometimes get complicated, grepWin allows you to add your most used expressions to a presets list. Once started, grepWin allows you to customize the search or replace in many ways.įor example, you can (and maybe you should) limit the search to certain file sizes, file types, etc. GrepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

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