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.

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Windows

dngrep allows you to search across files with easytoread results. search through text files, word documents, pdfs, and archives using text, regular expression, xpath, and phonetic queries. dngrep includes searchandreplace, wholefile preview, rightclick search in file explorer, and much more.

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search across text files, word documents, pdfs, and archives search using text, regular expressions (regex), xpath, and phonetics searchandreplace, including undo wholefile preview rightclick to search in file explorer move/copy/delete result files open line results in a custom editor, like notepad++ bookmark search patterns for later use try out complex searches in the test window run from usb drive using the standalone distribution much more!

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace

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