Alternatives to PRGrep for all platforms with any license

Agent Ransack

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the...

Freemium Windows
Context Menu extension File-search Outlook search Add a feature

86 Like
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...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

52 Like
FileLocator

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality...

Freemium Windows
Support for 64 bit Support for Double-byte languages File-search Support for Multiple threads ... Support for regular expressions Add a feature

25 Like
grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

20 Like
Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

21 Like
- Discontinued Not updated since May 2010. Website doesn't work either.
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-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

21 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-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

18 Like
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-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

23 Like
XSearch

XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for...

Free Windows
File-search Non-Indexing search Add a feature

11 Like
BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *...

Freemium Windows
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

11 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

3 Like
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...

Commercial Windows
Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

6 Like
- 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.
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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 OS X Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

3 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-search ... Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Search-in-files Add a feature

3 Like
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

2 Like