The Best 30 Windows Grep Alternatives

  • fnr.exe

    Open Source tool to find/replace text in multiple files. Extremely simple to use. Command line support to run Replace using batch file. Features Single file...

    Free Windows

  • regexxer

    regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • inforapid search replace

    InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently. With its built-in converters, its excellently suitable for searching and...

    Free Personal Windows

  • VisualAck

    GUI to search recursively for text, using Ack, a grep like tool.

    Free Mac OS X

  • PRGrep

    PRGrep is a powerful program to search strings inside files. Rather than showing a file list, the matching lines of text inside each file are also displayed. PRGrep has...

    Free Windows

  • 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

  • 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

  • Multiple Search and Replace

    Multiple Search and Replace is a powerful utility that can search and replace text in multiple files at the same time. It supports Text, Webpage, Microsoft Office, Rich...

    Free Windows

  • 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