81 Like Agent Ransack Good alternative? YES NO Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the... Freemium Windows Context Menu extension File-search Outlook search Add a feature
49 Like grepWin Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
21 Like AstroGrep Good alternative? YES NO AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and... Free Open Source Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
24 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain... Commercial Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
4 Like ripgrep Good alternative? YES NO ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
5 Like ack Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
4 Like The Silver Searcher Good alternative? YES NO Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD File-search Add a feature
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
6 Like Windows Grep Alternative? YES NO The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature Discontinued Official site has been replaced with few sentences of text without links thanking for the past 25 years. The program is safely downloadable at CNET aka Download.com.
3 Like Batch File Replace Good alternative? YES NO Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match... Freemium Windows Batch Editing Support for Batch Mode Batch processing File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace ... Search-in-files Add a feature
6 Like Replace Text Good alternative? YES NO Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows. At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace... Free Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
3 Like FAR - Find And Replace Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
1 Like UltraFinder Good alternative? YES NO UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers! Find any file, word, text string, pattern, duplicate and everything else you need... Commercial Windows File-search Add a feature
2 Like DeskRule Good alternative? YES NO Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell... Commercial Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search-in-files Add a feature
