Search and Replace Safely with PowerGREP’s Flexible Backup Options and Undo Abilities

With PowerGREP, you can maintain large sets of files and produce different editions of those files. The extensive backup options make sure you need not worry about losing important data when a certain action turns out to be unfortunate.

Choose the file name style for backup copies that suits your habits. Give backup files a particular extension to set them apart, or prepend "Backup X of " to the file name so you can easily open backup files with the associated application. Or give backup files the same name as the original, placing them into a different location.

Place backup files into the same folder as the original, or specify a specific backup folder to reduce clutter. Or place backup files into compressed archives to save on disk space. Use automatically numbered backup file names and backup locations to keep separate sets of backup files for each action modifying a particular file or set of files.

PowerGREP's Undo History pane automatically keeps track of which actions modified which files, archives, and folders as well as which backup copies were created. If something went wrong, you can undo any given action at the click of a button. The Undo History is persistent, even after closing PowerGREP or shutting down your computer. It is saved into a file of your choice.

You can undo any action as long as you did not delete the backup copies. Cleaning up backups for any given action is just as easy at the click of another button.

When to Use

• Find files and information anywhere on your PC or network
• Batch edit or redact large sets of data files or documents
• Collect information and statistics from log files or archives
• Split, merge, and rearrange logs and data sets

Unique Abilities

• Apply any number of search terms of regular expressions sequentially or concurrently
• Search through specific file sections
• Split files into records before searching
• Post-process replacement text or text to be collected
• Stay safe with the permanent Undo History
• Don't leave a trace after audits or forensic analysis

There are two ways in which you can get your own copy of PowerGREP and evaluate the software risk-free.

The best option is to buy your own copy of PowerGREP for US$ 159. Your purchase is covered by Jan Goyvaerts's personal three month risk-free unconditional money-back guarantee. This allows you to try the software without any limitations and without any risk for three months.

Alternatively, you can download the free evaluation version of PowerGREP. The free evaluation version can be downloaded anonymously. It allows you to explore PowerGREP for 15 days of actual use. Full documentation is included. The documentation extensively covers both PowerGREP itself, and the regular expression syntax.