grep

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

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grep is a commandline utility for searching plaintext data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

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File search Support for regular expressions

The Best 9 grep Alternatives

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Agent Ransack

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found.

Freemium Windows

File search Outlook search Context Menu extension
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DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Portable File search Indexed search Search in files Portability on many OS Semantic Search
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grepWin

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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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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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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Batch File Replace

Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files.

Freemium Windows

Portable File search Batch processing Support for Batch Mode Support for regular expressions Batch Editing Search and replace Search in files
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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

File search Support for regular expressions Search in files

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The Best grep alternatives for File search, from Support for regular expressions to a free app.
Alternatives in grep for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. This list contains a total of 9 applications similar to grep.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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grep

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The Best 9 grep Alternatives

Agent Ransack

DocFetcher

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PowerGREP

Replace Text

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DeskRule

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