Alternatives to Advanced Find and Replace for all platforms with any license

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...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Content Searching File Searching Portable Add a feature

25 Like
grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku
File Searching Support for regular expressions Add a feature

23 Like
AstroGrep

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and...

Free Open Source Windows
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

21 Like
PowerGREP

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...

Commercial Windows
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

20 Like
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...

Free Open Source Windows
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

25 Like
XSearch

XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for...

Free Windows
File Searching Non-Indexing search Add a feature

12 Like
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
Search and replace Add a feature

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Find Any File

Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

Free Mac
File Searching Add a feature

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Ultra File Search

Ultra File Search is a portable non-indexing Search Utility which is able to find quickly Files, Folders and Text on your Local, Network, DVD, CD-ROM, USB Hard or Flash...

Free Personal Windows
File Searching Non-Indexing search Portable Add a feature

6 Like
FAR - Find And Replace

FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

4 Like
iFileX

iFileX's functionality and design is based on Mac OS early-era file search tools such as Find File and Sherlock, now replaced by Spotlight.

Free Mac
File Searching Add a feature

3 Like
BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *...

Freemium Windows
File Searching Incremental search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

11 Like
Multi String Replacer

Multi String Replacer is a small and portable application that can be used to replace multiple strings at once. Its main functionality is String Swapping in which can be...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Regex substitution Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

1 Like
Online String Swap

Online String Swap, is a web page that can be used to replace multiple strings at once online in almost any web browser available out there!

Free Web
Search and replace Add a feature

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