DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Agent Ransack

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. .

Freemium Windows

90 Like

grepWin

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

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AstroGrep

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

23 Like

The Silver Searcher

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

dnGREP

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

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ripgrep

ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

PowerGREP

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

20 Like

ack

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...

• SO much simpler. Sane, modern, defaults. DesertShadow • Jul 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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regexxer

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

FAR - Find And Replace

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

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Multi String Search

Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

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SSR: Simple Search & Replace

Search and replace from command line.

Free Windows

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macOS Console

An application to view live log files.

Free Mac

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Windows Grep

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...

• 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.

Commercial Windows

7 Like