PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.
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BareGrep Alternatives
BareGrep is described as 'A free file finding and text searching tool:
- Regular expression text search
- High performance search algorithm
- Wildcard and regular expression file search
- Recursive directory search
- Save, name and manage text search patterns
- Interactive, incremental search
- Ext' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to BareGrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Microsoft Outlook apps. The best BareGrep alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like BareGrep are FSearch, DocFetcher, Clapgrep and Agent Ransack.
Alternatives list
- 86 PowerGREP alternatives
29 Indexer++ alternativesIndexer++ is probably the best open-source desktop files and folders search utility for Windows.
AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc.
CSearcher is a simple and fast free non-indexing search program.
Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily. Using standard Windows Explorer solution for this has many disavantages: it's slow, uses lots of RAM and many times it does not fin.
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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 together, then you should definitely give it a try.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
80 Ultra File Search alternativesUltra 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 Drives.
69 MasterSeeker alternativesMasterSeeker is software to search and find files in your pc lightning fast.
65 SMF – Search my Files alternativesSMF is a file and file duplicate search tool that uses hashing (MD5, CRC32 or SHA1) to determine similarity. It has tons of search filter capabilities and a result reporting tool, with which you can sub-filter the result set according to your needs.
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76 X1 Search alternativesX1 offers next generation enterprise search, eDiscovery and desktop search for traditional and virtual environments
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Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.
The Personal File Tagging Utility. Tagg is a utility which locates your files based on simple labels you attach or tag on to your files.
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