The Silver Searcher

Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

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Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

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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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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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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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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...

Commercial Windows

Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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ack

Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux
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ripgrep

ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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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
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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
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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

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