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. DeskRule icon
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    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 folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    App::Rak provides a CLI called rak that allows you to look for a pattern in (a selection of files) from one or more directories recursively. It has been modeled after utilities such as grep, ack, ag and rg, with a little bit of find mixed in, and -n and -p parameters of many...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  3. EasyGrep icon
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    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to grep.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and Proprietarygrep is Free and Open Source
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    Don't worry about those many files where you have to change a few things! There's no need to open every single file and edit them manually, Search and Replace does it all for you!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    An easy-to-use, fast and efficient full-text search tool for your iPad or iPhone. Search for content in files stored on your device, in iCloud, on network folders, USB drives and memory cards.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • easySearch is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to grep.

    • easySearch is Freemium and Proprietarygrep is Free and Open Source
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    A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool.

    • Search for files using powerful text matching commands called Regular Expressions.
    • You can search/replace one or more than one information on one or more than one file resources.
    • After the searcing proce.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    KFileReplace is a KDE utility that replace some strings with others in a lot of files in an only operation. Then it's very easy to update some URLs, filenames, ... which are written in all files of a project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Replace Text icon
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    Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Search & Replace Master is a freeware. It looks through multiple files for a string or pattern and can also replace it with another string or pattern.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Recursively search source code and text files for a pattern, then open matched files in your favourite editing/viewing app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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