The Best 28 grep Alternatives

  • JREPL.BAT

    Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves .

    Free Open Source Windows Wine

  • Rummage

    Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • iXoft TexFinderX

    TexFinderX is a freeware tool to search and replace text inside entire folders. TexFinderX is MacOS X, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and Seven compatible. Main...

    Free Mac OS X Windows

  • Multi Replacer

    A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool. - Search for files using powerful text matching commands called Regular Expressions. - You can...

    Commercial Windows

  • UniversalCodeGrep

    UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • KFileReplace

    KFileReplace is a KDE utility that replace some strings with others in a lot of files in an only operation. Then it's very easy to update some URLs, filenames, ......

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Multi String Search

    Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

    Freemium

  • Search and Replace

    Don't worry about those many files where you have to change a few things! There's no need to open every single file and edit them manually, Search and Replace...

    Commercial