21 Like AstroGrep Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Add a feature
24 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
16 Like grep Good alternative? YES NO grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
4 Like The Silver Searcher Good alternative? YES NO 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 File-search Add a feature
6 Like Windows Grep Alternative? YES NO 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 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.
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
3 Like Batch File Replace Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace ... Search-in-files Add a feature
6 Like Replace Text Good alternative? YES NO 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
2 Like Batch RegEx Good alternative? YES NO Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data... Commercial Windows Batch processing Support for regular expressions Text Analytics Text formatting Add a feature
3 Like FAR - Find And Replace Alternative? YES NO 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 Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
1 Like UltraFinder Good alternative? YES NO UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers! Find any file, word, text string, pattern, duplicate and everything else you need... Commercial Windows File-search Add a feature
1 Like Advanced File Finder Good alternative? YES NO Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified... Commercial Windows Batch processing File-search Search-in-files Add a feature
2 Like DeskRule Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search-in-files Add a feature
1 Like Rummage Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
