FAR - Find And Replace can help you to find and replace files, it is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

Search and replace operations on file content access multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings.

FAR automatically creates backups (unless you deselect this option) and is designed to operate on files dispersed over entire directory trees.
For your comfort you may define search strings that span multiple lines by just typing multiple lines - no obscure construct like "$\n?(?s:.)^" is required.

FAR wants to be this application that you only need once a year - but then you badly need it.

FAR has been created out of the need to change the layout of a website with hundreds of html pages. While all editors know "find and replace", and many support regular expressions, there is only a few that allows to:
1. Change a selection of files from different directories at once.
2. Allow search (and replace) patterns that span multiple lines.
Eventually FAR seeks to be fully platform independent. Being written in Java, it runs where Java runs.

Requirements:
* Java

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this search tool software.