FAR - Find And Replace AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like FAR - Find And Replace

FAR - Find And Replace is described as '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 regular expressions' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to FAR - Find And Replace for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best FAR - Find And Replace alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FAR - Find And Replace are AstroGrep, dnGREP, Search Monkey and Find and Replace (FNR).

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  1. grepWin icon
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    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 menu to easily search selected folders.

    35 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
     
    • grepWin is the most popular Windows alternative to FAR - Find And Replace.

    • grepWin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to FAR - Find And Replace.

    • grepWin is Free and Open SourceFAR - Find And Replace is also Free and Open Source
  2. AstroGrep icon
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    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. dnGREP icon
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    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, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Search Monkey icon
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    A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    81 Search Monkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Search Monkey is the most popular Linux alternative to FAR - Find And Replace.

    • Search Monkey is Free and Open SourceFAR - Find And Replace is also Free and Open Source
  5. grep icon
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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • grep is the most popular Mac alternative to FAR - Find And Replace.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceFAR - Find And Replace is also Free and Open Source
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    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
     
  7. XSearch icon
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    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 special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PowerGREP icon
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    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.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to FAR - Find And Replace.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryFAR - Find And Replace is Free and Open Source
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    Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Find Any File icon
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    Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:

    84 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. BareGrep icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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