regexxer Alternatives

Apps similar to regexxer include Listary, which has a free version. Other options are DocFetcher, Agent Ransack, Recoll and Clapgrep. You're spoiled for choice with File Search Utilities like regexxer: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and the web.

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  1. 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 regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    40 Advanced Find and Replace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. PowerGREP icon
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    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. SeaGOAT icon
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    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. BareGrep icon
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    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Offers a visual grep interface for Windows, enabling fast text and log filtering with multi-phrase search, set operations like merge and intersection, Regex editor with real-time preview, Unicode support, and instant output. No command-line or scripts needed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. UltraFinder icon
     2 likes

    UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. 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
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  9. Windows Grep icon
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    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 Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently. With its built-in converters, its excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Search and Replace for Windows is a fast, easy to use grep utility for search and replace in multiple files, directories and archives. Supports grep style Regular Expressions. Script language for webmasters and programmers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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