grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
- Linux Mobile

Apps similar to JREPL.BAT include grep, which is free and open source. Other options are ripgrep, ugrep, The Silver Searcher and SeaGOAT. In total there are seven File Search Utilities like JREPL.BAT for Linux, Mac and Windows.
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

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 .hignore, .gitignore contents.
Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.


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...