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grepWin

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grepWin is a 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.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • CH flagSwitzerland

Platforms

  • Windows
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  • Chocolatey
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Command line interface
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Support for regular expressions
  6.  File Search
  7.  External editor support
  8.  Command Line Options

 Tags

  • command-line-start
  • pcre
  • regular-expression-tester

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  • SV1987 replied to a comment / review on grepWin
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  • SV1987 reviewed grepWin  
    about 2 months ago

    I download many youtube comments. Then remove trash from them to make them more readable. As a result, there are many blank lines that I want to merge. I know how to merge it one by one with Notepad2 and 3. But I wanted something that could merge blank lines all at once in all files. I tried many programs. DnGrep could not handle empty lines as expected. Even though I used it for the rest. This grepwin can handle blank lines with or without spaces transparently, as expected. I am very...

  • thelovelyluxi, andrzila and r3v0000 liked grepWin
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    sterno900 added grepWin as alternative to BlitzSearch
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    POX added grepWin as alternative to Clapgrep
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grepWin information

  • Developed by

    CH flagStefan Küng
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7
  • Alternatives

    33 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • Korean
    • Chinese
    • Afrikaans
    • Belarusian

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  •  1,853 Stars
  •  198 Forks
  •  39 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 20, 2025 
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about grepWin, and it has gotten 74 likes

grepWin was added to AlternativeTo by Nostradamus on Sep 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Jul 30, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
walf
Apr 1, 2014
2

I've tried quite a few standalone regex search and replace tools but haven't found any I like more than this one. The main plus is that it uses PCRE syntax (yay!) which, I find is easier, more powerful, more featured than other syntaxes. (Several other tools use .NET's built-in regex syntax, which is not great.) It also has a couple of bonus variables that you can use in the replacement string. You can use it to search only. This is really useful if you want to test that your replacement string will behave as expected by copying one or more of the strings from the search results into the Test regex box.

Peter S.
Apr 1, 2025
1

I download many youtube comments. Then remove trash from them to make them more readable. As a result, there are many blank lines that I want to merge. I know how to merge it one by one with Notepad2 and 3. But I wanted something that could merge blank lines all at once in all files. I tried many programs. DnGrep could not handle empty lines as expected. Even though I used it for the rest. This grepwin can handle blank lines with or without spaces transparently, as expected. I am very satisfied, as I won't have to open over 30 txt files one by one with Notepad2. Instead I runs through them all at once with this.

Peter S.
Apr 1, 2025

it runs

RemovedUser
Oct 21, 2023
0

it's around 3 times faster than astrogrep, but unlike astrogrep it can't show the text, only the list of files it is contained in.

hced
Jul 13, 2021
1

It’s portable (always a plus!), lightweight, really fast. Just love it!

Hexaae
Jul 6, 2021
1

Simply put: it's the fastest tool of its kind and supports also regex! It's much faster than dnGrep too.
Also offers preview of matches and automatically supports Unicode, UTF-8 (and more) search too (so smart: you don't have to activate any option!)...

Henrik Cederblad
Jun 13, 2021
1

Portable. Super slim. Super fast. Powerful and competent. Has useful commandline options. Great external editor support. Just great.

bobkush
Jun 16, 2020
0

GrepWin is a powerful text search and replace tool with regular expression support.

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What is grepWin?

grepWin is a 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. The use of regular expressions allows for a very powerful search and replace. You can replace all files that contain subfolders. Date, size, and file type can be specified. It can be linked to any editor.

  • Dark theme
  • Multi-language