PowerGREP Examples

• Search through file names
• Find files not containing a search term
• Find email addresses
• Find word pairs
• Boolean operators “and” and “or”
• Find two words near each other
• Find two or more words on the same line
• Search through Microsoft Word documents
• Search and replace through Microsoft Word documents
• Search through PDF files
• Search through XPS and OXPS files
• Search through OpenOffice Writer documents
• Search through OpenDocument Format files
• Search through spreadsheets
• Update hyperlinks in Microsoft Office files
• Search and Edit Audio File Meta Data
• Rename Audio Files Using Meta Data
• Search and Edit EXIF and IPTC Image Meta Data
• Search through mailboxes and email messages
• Search through ZIP files and other archives
• Search through UOT files
• Extract or delete lines matching one or more search terms
• Delete repeated words
• Add a header and footer to files
• Add line numbers
• Collect page numbers
• Update copyright years
• Padding replacements
• Capitalize the first letter of each word
• Convert text file encoding and line break style
• Convert files in proprietary formats to plain text
• Find bytes that are not part of valid UTF-8 sequences
• Replace in file names and contents
• Insert proper HTML title tags
• Rename files based on HTML title tags
• Replace HTML tags
• Replace HTML attributes
• Put anchors around URLs that are not already inside a tag or anchor
• Collect XML Data with entities replaced
• Fix Invalid Characters in XML
• Search through or skip comments and strings
• Convert Windows to UNIX paths
• Extract data into a CSV file or spreadsheet
• Padding and unpadding CSV files
• Collect a numbered list
• Collect a list of header and item pairs
• Collect paragraphs (split along blank lines)
• Process files in a batch file or script
• Apply an extra search-and-replace to target files
• Inspect web logs
• Extract Google search terms from web logs
• Split web logs by date
• Merge web logs by date
• Split logs into files with a certain number of entries
• Split database dumps
• Compile indices of files
• Make sections and their contents consistent
• Generate a PHP navigation bar
• Include a PHP navigation bar