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BareGrep

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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.
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  • FreemiumProprietary

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  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Windows
3.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
13likes
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  1.  Support for regular expressions
  2.  File Search

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BareGrep information

  • Developed by

    GB flagBare Metal Software Pty Ltd
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5
  • Alternatives

    72 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

File Management

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about BareGrep, and it has gotten 13 likes

BareGrep was added to AlternativeTo by jomel on Sep 22, 2010 and this page was last updated Aug 31, 2018.

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Top Positive Comment
ibn Muhammad
Oct 25, 2019
0

Great application, however, it hasn't been maintained for over 10 years now!

The 'Pro' version is better in that it shows you a preview of the file under the list of files, allowing you to open each found file in a new tab and browse the section where the text search was found.

One major disadvantage is not being able to exclude directories or folder locations, and the UI/UX isn't entirely intuitive, such as not telling you that file types need to be separated by a space.

Another nice-to-have feature would have been a highlight option such that the lines where the matched text string was found are auto highlighted, rather than manually setting custom strings every time in the 'highlighting' panel.

Unfortunately not sure what has happened to the author, after emailing a couple of times about possibility of buying the 'pro' version, never received a reply.

TBayAreaPat
Jul 1, 2022
0

Lightweight and fast, but doesn't allow standard rename of result files. (a number of file searchers are like that, but some file searchers do allow a direct standard rename)

What is BareGrep?

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
  • Extract data with capturing groups
  • Tabular presentation of search results
  • Export/copy search results in many formats
  • Search files of any size (> 2GB)
  • Many file formats (Win32, Unix, Microsoft IIS logs)
  • Flexible configuration options and storage
  • Single small executable, no installer