Gawk Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   ripgrep

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   ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • United States

   

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   ack

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   Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Haiku

   • United States

   

   

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   App-Rak

    1 like

   App::Rak provides a CLI called rak that allows you to look for a pattern in (a selection of files) from one or more directories recursively. It has been modeled after utilities such as grep, ack, ag and rg, with a little bit of find mixed in, and -n and -p parameters of many...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Mac
   • Windows
   • BSD

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   datamash

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   GNU datamash is command-line program which performs simple calculation (e.g. count, sum, min, max, mean, stdev, string coalescing) on input files. Datamash has a rich set of statistical functions, to quickly assess information in textual input files.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Statistical Analyzer

   Origin

   • Israel

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

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   Mawk

    1 like

   mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   spot

    1 like

   Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

   

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