FR-Command-Line-Text-Find-and-Replace

Short Description:
A Windows Console program designed to simplify find and replace text changes in sets of Microsoft Visual Studio Project files or files organised in directory trees.

Long Description 1:
A Windows Console program designed to simplify find and replace text changes in sets of Microsoft Visual Studio Project files or files organised in directory trees. Primarily designed for programmers - who want to change class, function or identity names in many source files; and web designers - so that they can automate coordinated changes to the many files comprising large websites.

Long Description 2:
A Windows Console program designed to simplify find and replace text changes in sets of Microsoft Visual Studio Project files or files organised in directory trees. Primarily designed for programmers - who want to change class, function or identity names in many source files; and web designers - so that they can automate coordinated changes to the many files comprising large websites. FR allows you to:- * search case sensitively or insensitively, * search for whole word or partial matches, * search and replace control characters and non ASCII characters using Escape Sequences, * search and replace in both text and (some) binary files, * include subdirectories in the search, * use @File lists containing multiple find/replace pairs, * parse Microsoft Visual Studio Project Files to find target files, * show changed lines and corresponding line numbers, * specify target files with multiple wild carded pathnames, or * use @File lists of target files (with wild carded pathnames for both the @Files and the individual file paths given in the @Files), and * run a TEST mode check to list the files that will be affected. * function as just a text FIND utility.