FreeBee Find And Replace

Geared toward experienced users, FreeBee Find And Replace is an advanced search tool that can find and replace text across multiple files at the same time. It offer support for ANSI, such as SGML docs (e.g. HTML, XML), source code and other plain text docs, Unicode (UTF-16 Big Endian and Little Endian) along with UTF-8 files.

Easy setup and feature-rich interface

After a fast and uneventful setup operation, you're welcomed by a user-friendly interface represented by a normal window split into multiple panes with neatly organized options for files and text, date range, properties, storage paths, and collector.

Configure keyword and file search settings

You can select one or more folders to build the scan scope, include or exclude subfolders, filter files by name or extension, exclude any items, as well as indicate the search keyword and replacement.
It can match whole words, perform case-sensitive search operations, ignore whitespace, retain the original timestamps, and use regular expressions. Search results can be narrowed down by specifying ranges for the date, file size and attributes.

View search results, create scenarios, and generate reports

FreeBee Find And Replace can be asked to generate HTML reports with statistics and to create backups before modifying the files. It also has an expert-level feature dedicated to creating and managing scenarios with ready options for repetitive search-and-replace operations.
Once search results are displayed, you can view the full path and size of each file, customize the font and colors, as well as handpick the files to replace keywords in. The utility can minimize to the systray to become minimally invasive. If you have Microsoft Office installed, it can process Word and Excel files. The ID3 tags of media files can be edited too.

Evaluation and conclusion

To sum it up, FreeBee Find And Replace comes equipped with a comprehensive set of options and configuration settings for searching and replacing text across multiple files at once. Scans were swiftly performed, while CPU and RAM usage remained low.