Alternatives to grep for all platforms with any license

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 OS X Windows Linux
Search-in-files File-search Indexed search Portability on many OS ... Portable Semantic Search Add a feature

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Agent Ransack

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

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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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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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 OS X Linux BSD
File-search Add a feature

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ripgrep

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux
File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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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
Search and replace Add a feature

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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...

Commercial Windows
Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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- 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.
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 OS X Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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Batch File Replace

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 ... Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Search-in-files Add a feature

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JREPL.BAT

Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves .

Free Open Source Windows Wine
Extensible via user JScript Add a feature

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Replace Text

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

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