Alternatives to grepWin 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 Windows Linux
Search-in-files Indexed search File Searching Portable ... Search in Archives Semantic Search Shared folders Add a feature

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grep

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 Searching Support for regular expressions Add a feature

26 Like
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 Searching Gui Portable Support for regular expressions 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 Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace 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 Linux BSD
File Searching Add a feature

10 Like
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 Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

20 Like
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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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 Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions File Renaming Search and replace Add a feature

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SSR: Simple Search & Replace

Search and replace from command line.

Free Windows
No features added 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...
- 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.
Commercial Windows
Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

7 Like
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 Searching ... Hex Editor Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Search-in-files Add a feature

3 Like
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...
- Discontinued Official website is broken, no access to app.
Free Windows
File Searching Support for regular expressions Add a feature

6 Like
Baloo

Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results. An intentionally limited number of...

Free Open Source Linux
File Searching Add a feature

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Batch RegEx

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 Portable Support for regular expressions Text Analytics ... Text formatting Add a feature

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UltraFinder

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 Searching Add a feature

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