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FAR - Find And Replace vs mlocate

A side-by-side look at FAR - Find And Replace and mlocate. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

FAR - Find And Replace

FAR - Find And Replace

Office & Productivity

FAR is a free text search and replace tool for Windows. It allows you to quickly find and replace words or phrases across multiple files and folders. Useful for making bulk edits to documents, code, and more.

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mlocate

mlocate

Os & Utilities

mlocate is a command line utility in Linux for quickly locating files based on their name or a regular expression. It maintains a database of files and directories to allow fast lookups compared to searching the whole file system.

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