grepWin Share Help Try It

Regular expression search and replace for Windows

Category

File Search

License

GPL 3

Platforms

Windows

Released

2017

Path

c:\grepWin\

Benefits

You can also integrate grepWin into Visual Studio, the wiki explains how.

Examples

grepWin.exe /searchpath:"C:\Documents" /searchfor:"error\d+" /filemask:"*.txt" /regex:yes /u:yes /i:yes /execute

grepWin.exe /searchini:"C:\Config\search_settings.ini" /name:"CodeSearch" /replacewith:"new_text" /executereplace /k:yes /closedialog

grepWin.exe /searchpath:"D:\Projects" /searchfor:"TODO" /wholewords:yes /datelimit:1 /date1:"2025:01:01" /u:yes /execute

Try it

• Search for a regex (GUI tool)
  Build and execute a grepWin command line that searches the samples folder for the same Pride and Prejudice surnames as the ripgrep demo. grepWin is primarily a Windows GUI tool - /execute /closedialog runs the search and closes the result window, but stdout is typically empty (matches are rendered in the GUI). Use ripgrep instead when you need scriptable output. Demo will only work on hosts with an interactive desktop session.

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# grepWin - Help

Source: https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

grepWin is a GUI application. CLI help is available at:
https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin_cmd.html

```
Usage: grepWin.exe /searchpath:"path" /searchfor:"regex" [/replacewith:"text"]

Common flags:
  /searchpath:"path"    Directory to search
  /searchfor:"text"     Search string or regex
  /replacewith:"text"   Replacement text
  /regex                Use regex matching
  /size:NUM             Filter by file size
  /includesystem        Include system/hidden files
  /content              Search in file contents
```