Simple Utility – big bucks?

With the change coming up for my first website at EV1.NET, I had to move a few dozen web pages chock full of complete links to other pages on the site. A few years back, I moved my messing-about.com site to its own domain, and had the same task to do. At that time, I found several freeware utilities to do a global search and replace on all files in a directory.

Alas, this time I found mostly shareware and commercial programs, with price tags averaging about $39. This is the kind of utility programmers would routinely create and put up on their sites as freeware, but except for open source programs that are relatively large, you don’t find freeware utilities very often.

I did find just the ticket … a freeware utility posted on another programmer’s site (the author’s home page returns a “page not found” error). Andreas Jönsson created AutoReplace.exe, and you can download it at the trustMeher Softwares site.

Here’s hoping Andreas Jönsson is well, and has a rewarding and lucrative job that just prevents him from having to run his own site anymore. If you’re out there, Jönsson, thanks for the assist.