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In Windows, how do I do a mass search-replace where I search for a phrase and then copy the phrase with several different phrases?

I use Windows and I use a variety of text editors (NotePad++, Vim, etc). Any application works (since I'm willing to try any of the applications I have). ==== This is what I want to search. ...
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Multiple find and replace in a word document

I want to do a series of find and replace operations. Unfortunately, the documents I have to work on are in Word (.docx) format so I cannot script this. These are book chapters so formatting is ...
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Find-And-Replace Any Selected Text

Goal: Quick find-and-replace for active selected text in any application. Description: I want a utility to quickly perform a predetermined find-and-replace for the current selected text in the active ...
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Program for search and replace [closed]

I am looking for specific type of search and replace program. Is there a program that will let me 'feed' different replace texts. For example, if I have text This is a sentence. This is a sentence. ...
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How to replace one line to two lines or more on a text file using the “find and replace mode”?

Right now I'm developing a script with vbscript and I need to find one specific line(with a lot of occurrences) on a 5k lines source code and replace it to two new code lines(1 line to 2 lines ...
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Find and Replace text (FART): Replaced 0 occurence(s)

The great FART utility seems to be the norm when trying to replace text on the windows command line. However I can't get it to work as shown in the examples. My test file test.txt: Images Here ...
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search, remove duplicates and marge to one file

What is going to be my best way to search and remove duplicate's from over 50GBs worth of text files and merge them into one? I figure a GUI app will just hang so I need a CLI style with threading ...
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Find and replace block of text (with other blocks of text) in multiple files [closed]

Is there a FREE utility out there for replacing blocks of text? Something like notepad++'s find in files works for simple lines but in my case it's unusable since I need to target the entire block to ...
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How can I insert a page break using Find/Replace dialog in Word 2007?

I'm trying to replace "----------" with a new page or a CTRL+enter keyboard shortcut. I pasted "CTRL+ENTER" into the "Replace With:" field in Microsoft Word 2007, hoping that when I clicked "Replace ...
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Windows, selective text search and replace within files? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Editor with muti-line search and replace I'm looking for (ideally free) software, which will perform selective search and replace on multiple text files. So I want to ...
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Find and replace character with control character

Is it possible to find and replace a character with a control character? Given the text one,two,three I want to Find , and replace with \n (new line). So the result becomes one two three I am ...
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How to do Linux-like file modifications on Windows command line?

I need to do some more or less easy replacements in certain files on Windows machines. This is part of an automated software build process, so to be able to reproduce it on all build mashines I ...
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Something that can search and replace a hex string but for multiple files?

Hi I'm looking for a hex editor kind of thing but for multiple files? Can Windows Grep do this or does it only handle text strings?
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Text editor on Windows to delete large block of copyright text in multiple source files?

Optional Background Information: [ The author of a Java open source project I am using has changed the copyright notice in every file in the project. As a result, I can no longer diff between the ...
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Any Repeating text/phrase finder function/software for text editor? replace/remove?

I compile my own PDF for my personal use from texts copied from other sources and other ebooks I have purchased. When I copy texts from other PDFs, the chapter title, page # and book titile appear ...
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How to scrub a document of all text between brackets with find and replace

I have a log file and I need to find all instances of <password> hash here </password> and remove the hash and replace it with some dummy text like aaa-aaa-aaa-aaaa. The recurring search ...
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Search and replace tool that can handle multiple files and subfolders

I'm looking for a tool which can search/replace within file contents for a broad range of file types (i.e. it should, if possible, process the maximum possible number of file types like .txt, .sql, ...
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How to replace spaces with dashes?

I am looking to replace spaces between words in a field with dashes "-" Example: From: "See it here" To: "See-it-here" customer faqs how we can help planning your budget customer case ...