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

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain text or regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, ...

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace

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The Best PowerGREP alternatives for Portable, from File search to a Support for regular expressions.
Alternatives in PowerGREP for Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook, Mac OS X, Linux, Haiku, Wine. This list contains a total of 69 applications similar to PowerGREP.

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

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The Best 69 PowerGREP Alternatives

Agent Ransack

Lookeen Desktop Search

Locate32

DocFetcher

grepWin

FileSearchy

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SearchMyFiles

FileLocator

dnGREP

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grep

Index Your Files

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XSearch

BareGrep

SwiftSearch

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