grep Alternatives

grep is described as 'Command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to grep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best grep alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like grep are Agent Ransack, grepWin, ripgrep and Clapgrep.

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  1. 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 regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Blink grep icon
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    GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.

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    • Windows
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  3. Windows Grep icon
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    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 Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. TextCrawler icon
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    TextCrawler is a fantastic tool for anyone who works with text files. This cool utility enables you to instantly find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders. It utilises a powerful Regular Expression engine to enable you to create sophisticated...

    8 TextCrawler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. UltraFinder icon
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    UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. A high-performance, cross-platform CLI tool for file filtering, batch processing, and workflow automation. It replaces fragmented Shell scripts with consistent Glob/Regex logic and async file streams.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. TexFinderX is a freeware tool to search and replace text inside entire folders.

    TexFinderX is MacOS X, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and Seven compatible.

    Main features Search and replace text - with regular expression or not - in entire folders with the ability to filter de.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Rummage icon
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    Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage allows for literal or regex searches and has configurations for limiting the files etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. SeaGOAT icon
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    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10.  2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  11. regexxer icon
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    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 together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    29 regexxer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. rare icon
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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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