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...

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Windows

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 windows.

in addition to searching, windows grep also performs global replacing in your files, with complete safety.

windows grep is designed for searching plainascii text files, such as program source, html, rtf and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.

Links to official Windows Grep sites

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Support for regular expressions Search and replace

The Best 30 Windows Grep Alternatives

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grepWin

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions
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dnGREP

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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AstroGrep

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions
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PowerGREP

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Portable File search Support for regular expressions Search and replace
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grep

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File search Support for regular expressions
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BareGrep

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File search Support for regular expressions
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Exselo Desktop

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File search Support for regular expressions
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FAR - Find And Replace

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Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Support for regular expressions Multiple files Search and replace
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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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Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data...

Commercial Windows

Portable Text formatting Batch processing Support for regular expressions Text Analytics
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DeskRule

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File search Support for regular expressions Search in files
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Portable Integrated Search File search Searches inside files for specified cont
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Commercial Windows
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Commercial Windows

Portable File search Batch processing Duplicate Files Finder Search in files
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Advanced Find and Replace

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The Best Windows Grep alternatives for Support for regular expressions, from Search and replace to a free app.
Alternatives in Windows Grep for Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook, Mac OS X, Linux, Haiku, BSD. This list contains a total of 30 applications similar to Windows Grep.

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

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The Best 30 Windows Grep Alternatives

Lookeen Desktop Search

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AstroGrep

PowerGREP

grep

BareGrep

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Replace Text

The Silver Searcher

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Batch File Replace

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