cut, grep, regex, universal search and replaces

Is there a GUI program out there for the use of grep, cut, regex, and I need a powerful search and replace program ... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

ThankS!

grep and cut are powerful search programs. for search and replace, you should use sed, awk or perl. i doubt there is a gui. and if, probably you´ll get like less than 1% of the power that they have!

learn how to use the command line, there is no more effective way.

have a look at bash programming too, it´s easy

some hints:

grep "text" * is "find text in all files in the current directory."
grep -i "text" * is "find text in all files in the current directory and don´t care about upper/lower case
ls -lR / | grep -i .jpg is "find all jpg-files on the filesystem no matter if their extension is jpg, JPG, jPg or ..."

and one to sleep a night about (bash,sed,cat):

for i in *; do cat "$i"|sed -e s/war/peace/ig >/tmp/tmpfile; cat /tmp/tmpfile > "$i"; done; rm -f /tmp/tmpfile

what does it do?

sorry to drag politics into the group but i couldn't resist ...

my guess is that this will remove the georGeW32busH@mm virus from your computer.

jaa

Bah, who wants to replace war with peace? What would we do for excitement then? Could we at least replace war with "mini-battles" or something similar??