Text Tools - Processing (3)

MiniTrue (mtr) is a versatile utility which combines a fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or modification of a large number of files. MiniTrue can operate interactively and prompt to see if a replacement should be made or it can make all desired substitutions automatically. MiniTrue can also print out matching lines in the manner of the utility grep. If no strings to search for are present, MiniTrue functions like the pager program less.

Supports long file names (LFN). No Unicode support. 16/32bit dos and 32bit windows console.

Options:

-a search All files
-b make Backup files
-c Case insensitivity
-d preserve original Datestamps
-e ignore file Errors
-f Fold lines at word breaks
-h begin in Hex mode
-i:FILE read strings from FILE
-k Keep statistics
-l generate Log file
-mNUM set top Margin
-n No prompting
-o use standard Output (grep mode)
-p:SET define set of printing chars
-q Quiet mode
-r Recurse through subdirectories
-s accelerated Scrolling
-tTABSIZE set Tab size
-u set region for boolean searches
-v set Video mode
-w Whole words only
-x use regular eXpressions
-y skip binarY files
-z unZip files before searching
-@:FILE read filenames from FILE

Swiss File Knife (SFK) is a multi-function command line tool designed to avoid having to install many small tools. Swiss File Knife can find text in binary files, calculate directory sizes, find duplicate files, join a split file back to whole, calculate and verify MD5 hashes, show a hex dump of a binary file, print first/last lines of a text file, convert line endings, download files from the Internet, and more.