grep Alternatives
Apps similar to grep include DocFetcher, which is free and open source. Other options are Agent Ransack, Clapgrep, grepWin and ripgrep. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like grep, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Alternatives list
78 DeskRule alternativesWherever 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.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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File Brain is a desktop application that helps you find files instantly using natural language. Instead of remembering exact filenames, you can ask questions like "flight ticket invoice", and File Brain uses semantic search to understand the meaning and show the...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Algeria
43 WSearch alternativesWSearch is a lightweight Windows desktop search application designed to help you quickly find files, folders, and applications.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
Vietnam
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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
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...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- BSD
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13 Search and Replace alternativesDon'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!
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
Germany
EU
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
- Proprietary
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- iPhone
- iPad
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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
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
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Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows.
Platforms
- Windows
Recursively search source code and text files for a pattern, then open matched files in your favourite editing/viewing app.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
