Drill Alternatives
Drill is described as 'Search files without indexing, but clever crawling' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are five alternatives to Drill for Windows, Linux, GTK+, Xfce and PyGTK. The best alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Drill are FSearch, Catfish, SearchMyFiles and Search Text In Files.
Drill alternatives are mainly File Search Utilities but may also be Duplicate File Finders or File Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Drill.
"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on local or removable NTFS volumes on your computer (hence the name...
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FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.
GTK+ desktop search frontend.
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SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...
Search Text In Files is an easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files.
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