ack Alternatives

Apps similar to ack include Agent Ransack, which has a free version. Other options are grep, ripgrep, dnGREP and ugrep. You can choose from more than 10 File Search Utilities like ack for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. M

    Mawk

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    mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    JREPL.BAT

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    Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
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    Baloo

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    Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

    20 Baloo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. U

    UniversalCodeGrep

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    UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. rare icon

    rare

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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Zoekt

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    Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce "zooked" in English).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
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