gbReplace is a very easy to use utilty which can find and replace text across multiple files in a folder. Multi-line find and replace strings are supported. gbReplace can also view/edit text files as well as convert files names to upper or lower case.

Online updates are supported.

Features

Menu Selections

Options

Safety

Features

On the right side of the main window you can enter the text to be found (multiple lines of text are allow) and the text to use for replacement.

After a replacement action the list of selected files will be shown in the 'Results' textbox, along with an indication of what action was taken.

Menu Options Help     Email Author     Web Site     Discussion Forums     Online Help     Online Update     -----     About

gbReplace provides three basic functions:

Find and Replace
Type in the text to find, the text to replace it with, and select one or more files on which to perform the find and replace function.

Selected files are listed in the 'Results' textbox along with an indication of whether a replacement action was taken within the file.

The folder where the most recent Replace action took place is displayed in the 'Last Folder' textbox.

Text File Viewer
Double-clicking on a file name in the file list brings up a window which contains the file for vieweing or editing. Press the Save button to save any edits. Closing the Viewer window will lose any edits in progress. No confirmation warning is provided.

File Name Case Conversion
Pressing the Upper or Lower command buttons will change the names of the files to the corresponding case.

Menu Options

The Help menu offers the following selections.

• Email Author
  Opens up the default mail applications with a new email addressed to the author of gbReplace
• Web Site
  Opens the default browser at Gary Beene's Freeware Information Center
• Discussion Forums
  Opens to the URL of the Gary Beene Information Centers Discussion Forums
• Online Help
  Opens the default browser at the gbReplace Online Help page.
• Online Updates
  Opens a dialog window from which the latest version of gbReplace can be downloaded.
• About
  Shows the revision level of the installed version of gbReplace

Options

Commands

• Replace
  - For each selected file, uses the text in the 'Replace This' textbox with the text in the 'With This' textbox.
• Restore
  - Replaces each selected file with its backup version (files with .old extension). If no backup (.old extension) is available then no action is taken. The backup files are deleted after the restore action is taken.
• Select
  - Selects all files lists in the filename listbox.
• Clear
  - Unselected all files.
• Upper
  - Converts selected filenames to upper case
• Lower
  - Converts selected filenames to lower case
• Exit
  - Closes gbReplace

Options

• Create Backups
  - When a replacement occurs, a copy of the original file is saved as the original filename with a '.old' suffix.
• Case Sensitive
  - Treats upper and lower case text as equal when left unselected.
• Trim Blank Lines
  - For both search and replace strings, lines at the bottom of the strings which consist of only a carriage return and line feed are removed. Lines with spaces in them are left untouched.

Safety

.exe .dll .ocx .xls .jpg .gif .bmp .mp3

A replace action cannot be taken on a file with any of these extensions. gbReplace will allow the files to be selected, but the file will be ignored during a replace action.

Users can modify this file to contain any extensions they wish to protect. The list of extensions must be contained on a single line of text within the file 'exception.txt'.