Nhreplace

Nhreplace is a light, but powerful piece of software that enables you to replace text in regular files or standard strings with the desired text or expression.

After a quick and straightforward setup, you can access the application via Windows' command line console. Considering that the app comes with a CLI instead of a regular interface, it is safe to assume that the program addresses advanced users who are accustomed to working with commands.

The idea behind the application is to provide you with a quick way to search for the desired text so that you can replace it with an edited or corrected version. The utility allows you to use plain text or a regular expression as the search string, whereas the replacements you can make include static text, static text with escape characters, the content of a text file as well as the formatted result of a regular expression.

It is worth mentioning that the program can also be used for converting the code pages of several types of text files, namely ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode and OEM. You will be happy to learn that the application can perform the conversion at the same time with the text replacement. Consequentially, it can read and replace text strings in an ANSI file and then save the results in a UTF-16 or Unicode format.

A further noteworthy feature is that the program can be used in VBS, JS, CMD, BAT or PowerShell batch files and scripts. As you would expect, once you configure all settings via command line arguments, there is no need for more interactive input from the user.

If you are involved in a project that entails locating specific sets of texts across multiple files so that you can replace them with the correct text or a regular expression, then perhaps Nhreplace could come in handy.