Finding and Replacing

While all of our favorite text-editors and WYSIWYGs have their own find and replace functionality, most of them fall short when you have a lot of things to modify. Thankfully, there’s some really good utilities out there to help you on your finding and replacing way.

The first is Name Mangler, which is awesome for batch file name changing, a mundane task that I have to perform on a large-scale regularly. Case, extension, replacement, character-by-character insertion/deletion – it does pretty much everything.

Another great tool is TexFinderX, which lets you find and replace what’s in the file. With the ability to filter files within directories, use regular expressions, backup your files before applying changes and a host of other stuff I’m forgetting, it can crunch through 10,000 files with ease (which came in handy last week). And all for the amazing price of free, with versions of it available on Windows, Mac and Linux.