49 Like grepWin Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Add a feature
20 Like AstroGrep Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Add a feature
18 Like Searchmonkey Good alternative? YES NO 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
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
11 Like Find Any File Good alternative? YES NO Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks. Free Mac No features added Add a feature
14 Like grep Good alternative? YES NO grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku Support for regular expressions Add a feature
22 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
11 Like XSearch Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
11 Like BareGrep Good alternative? YES NO A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *... Freemium Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
5 Like Ultra File Search Good alternative? YES NO Ultra File Search is a portable non-indexing Search Utility which is able to find quickly Files, Folders and Text on your Local, Network, DVD, CD-ROM, USB Hard or Flash... Free Personal Windows No features added Add a feature
6 Like Windows Grep Alternative? YES NO 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 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.
3 Like Batch Files Good alternative? YES NO Replace, insert, delete, copy, move, format, extract, convert, encode, encrypt text and bytes in multiple files. Process 1000s files using multiple CPU cores in manual... Commercial Windows Batch conversion Batch Editing Batch rename files Batch processing Support for regular expressions Add a feature
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
3 Like Batch File Replace Good alternative? YES NO 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 Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
5 Like fnr.exe Good alternative? YES NO Open Source tool to find/replace text in multiple files. Extremely simple to use. Command line support to run Replace using batch file. Features Single file... Free Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
