ripgrep Alternatives

ripgrep is described as 'Command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ripgrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best ripgrep alternative is Agent Ransack, which is free. Other great apps like ripgrep are grep, dnGREP, ugrep and WSearch.

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    mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.

    6 spot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  4. UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce "zooked" in English).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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