Gema Alternatives

Gema is described as 'General purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. In general, it reads an input file and copies it to an output file, while performing certain transformations to the data as specified by a set of patterns defined by the user' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gema for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Gema alternative is Perl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gema are AWK, GNU sed, PP - A generic Preprocessor and GNU M4.