DeskRule

Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.

Commercial
Windows

if your search engine can only locate filenames, you are missing out on the wealth of 300 windows file properties. deskrule is a fast and reliable desktop search engine handling all document attributes, from simple name and contents to photo geolocation tags.

find top rated pictures find audio tracks by artist locate pdf/office documents by tags, author or contained keywords find photos shot in australia (gps) find photos of your kids (people) find dlls installed by microsoft (company) ... and regular search by name/content if you wish!

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File search Support for regular expressions Search in files

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grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable File search Support for regular expressions
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FileLocator

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality version of FileLocator Pro.

Freemium Windows

File search Support for regular expressions Support for 64 bit Support for Multiple threads Support for Double byte languages
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dnGREP

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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AstroGrep

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable File search Support for regular expressions
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PowerGREP

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want.

Commercial Windows

Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku

File search Support for regular expressions
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FSearch

FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

Free Open Source Linux

File search Indexed search Support for regular expressions
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BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save, name and manage text search...

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File search Support for regular expressions
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Windows Grep

The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft...

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Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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Replace Text

Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows. At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace program.

Free Windows

File search Support for regular expressions
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CSearcher

CSearcher is a simple and fast free non-indexing search program. Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Export to CSV File search Windows Explorer integration Support for regular expressions Duplicate Files Finder Export to HTML Export to XML Non Indexing search Search History
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FAR - Find And Replace

FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Support for regular expressions Multiple files Search and replace

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