grepWin - search and replace

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grepWin - search and replace

#1 Post by Gunner »

[Moderator note: this thread was split from the Windows GREP thread.]

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How about a freeware version like this one: grepWin... been using it for a long time. Works on Win7 and has a 64 bit version..
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/... never tested for portable... don't have a thumb drive...but it is open source so easy to check....

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Re: Windows GREP

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Gunner wrote:How about a freeware version like this one: grepWin... been using it for a long time. Works on Win7 and has a 64 bit version..
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/... never tested for portable... don't have a thumb drive...but it is open source so easy to check....
Yeah, that looks really good. I'll check that one out as well.

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Re: Windows GREP

#3 Post by lautrepay »

Gunner wrote:How about a freeware version like this one: grepWin... been using it for a long time. Works on Win7 and has a 64 bit version..
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/... never tested for portable... don't have a thumb drive...but it is open source so easy to check....
http://code.google.com/p/grepwin/wiki/c ... parameters
Command line parameters for grepWin

parameter | description
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/portable | stores ini settings file in the same directory as the one in which grepwin.exe resides

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Re: Windows GREP

#4 Post by guinness »

I tested GrepWin suggested by lautrepay with the commandline parameter /portable and when I opened and closed it didn't save any settings, but then when I search for something it saved history in HKCU\Software\grepWin.

Tested: Not Portable

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Re: Windows GREP

#5 Post by joby_toss »

Issue confirmed. Author notified.

Am I too late? :)

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Re: Windows GREP

#6 Post by guinness »

joby_toss wrote:Am I too late? :)
Not at all :mrgreen:

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Re: Windows GREP

#7 Post by Ascend4nt »

Thanks guys for making me aware of another good program =)

There's a portable version of grepWin at PortableApps.com, in case anyone hasn't seen it.

Works pretty nicely - I just used it to get rid of all that extra data that Firefox tacks onto internet shortcuts. I wish there was an option to not include icon paths when creating them. (and those paths include your logon name!)

This is the RegEx I used for deleting that, btw (file name filter: *.url):

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IDList=\v+HotKey=\d+\v+IconFile=C:\\.*\v+IconIndex=\d+\v+

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Re: grepWin

#8 Post by Midas »

@Ruby: So sorry, my mistake (I checked http://busybox.net/downloads/) current is v1.21.1, but v1.20.2 is there -- I was only looking at the tail...
http://busybox.net/ wrote:http://busybox.net/]2 July 2012 -- BusyBox 1.20.2
EDIT: contrary to Windows GREP, which is shareware, free OSS grepWin (referred by Gunner at viewtopic.php?p=32122#p32122) is mostly portable if (always!) run with the /portable command line parameter -- it still saves some settings (window position) to 'HKCU\Software\grepWin'...

grepWin is currently v1.6.3.546 (2013/10/27 build date), available in 32 and 64 bit variants from the homepage at http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/grepWin.html.

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@webfork: present topic should probably be moved to 'Resources and Links' or the like... :)
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Re: grepWin

#9 Post by Midas »

grepWin is currently v1.6.5 (changelog not found, download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stefans ... s/grepWin/)

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Re: grepWin

#10 Post by Midas »

grepWin is currently v1.6.9(.612, released 2015-06-09; changelog not found, download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/files/1.6.9/).

There are now portable versions with both 32 and 64-bits executables that appear to be completely stealth -- settings are saved to (a mostly empty) 'grepwin.ini' file in program folder, and I didn't find the the previously reported registry entry at 'HKCU\Software\grepWin'. In the interest of running the adequate bitness version, you could use the following config for a yaP launcher:

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; configuration file for yaP v0.6.5.293B (http://rolandtoth.hu/yaP/)
; application name: grepWin
; version: v1.6.9.612
; website: http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/grepWin.html

[GENERAL]
application = grepWin32.main :: grepWin64.main
; commandline = 
; workdir = 

[BEFORE]
nowait = 1
[...]
Please note that download of both portable versions and renaming each one -- to 'grepWin32.main' and 'grepWin64.main' -- is required for this launcher configuration to work.

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Having compressed said executables with UPX and mpress, respectively, my whole portable grepWin folder is thus less than 1MB... :mrgreen:
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Re: Windows GREP

#11 Post by TP109 »

Windows XP not supported. See here: http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/grepWin.html.

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Re: Windows GREP

#12 Post by Midas »

grepWin portable(?) v1.7.0 released (no changelog; download is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/files/).

Portability info (also at http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/grepWin_cmd.html):
https://sourceforge.net/p/grepwin/wiki/commandlineparameters/ wrote:/portable -- stores ini settings file in the same directory as the one in which 'grepwin.exe' resides.

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#13 Post by smaragdus »

It seems that grepWin has completely switched from SourceForge to GitHub, the latest version (1.7.2.730) is available for download only from GitHub.

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Project - SourceForge
Project - GitHub
Download - SourceForge
Download - GitHub
Command line parameters
Tickets - SourceForge
Issues - GitHub
Publisher - SourceForge
Publisher - GitHub
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Latest version - 1.7.2 (1.7.2.730 - released on 2018-03-30), there is no change log.

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grepWin.exe /portable
still works.

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Re: grepWin - search and replace

#14 Post by webfork »

As noted in a Notepad3 post, there is a new search-and-replace tool that's based off grepWin called "grepWinNP3."

As yet, I don't see a substantial difference between the two programs, though I get the sense that grepWinNP3 has a few more features/filters but is still in beta (I saw a few minor issues in testing).

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Re: grepWin - search and replace

#15 Post by Midas »

Topic update: grepWin current release is v2.0.11 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin/releases/).

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