grepWin Alternatives

grepWin is described as 'Simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders' and is a popular File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to grepWin for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best grepWin alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like grepWin are Clapgrep, dnGREP, AstroGrep and grep.

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  1. SeekFast icon
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    SeekFast is a software tool for quick and easy text search on your computer. SeekFast can search in all Microsoft Word documents (doc), PDF, RTF and text files in a folder and its subfolders on your computer.

    6 SeekFast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Baloo icon
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    Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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
     
    • Samurai Search is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to grepWin.

    • Samurai Search is Free and ProprietarygrepWin is Free and Open Source
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    String Replacer for Mac allows to find and replace a list of strings inside files and folders directly or in batch mode. It allows to operate on multiple files using a multiple string couple replacement list. It works with just a single click or using drag and drop.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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 directories and searching for matching files. Copy and rename found files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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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    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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    A Stand alone Windows (x64) Search Tool that works together with Many Popular IDE's and Text Editors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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