Rummage Alternatives

Rummage is described as 'Cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage allows for literal or regex searches and has configurations for limiting the files etc' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rummage for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best Rummage alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rummage are AstroGrep, dnGREP, grep and ugrep.

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  1. grepWin icon
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    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 menu to easily search selected folders.

    35 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
     
    • grepWin is the most popular Windows alternative to Rummage.

    • grepWin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Rummage.

    • grepWin is Free and Open SourceRummage is also Free and Open Source
    • grepWin is LightweightRummage is not according to our users
  2. AstroGrep icon
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    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. dnGREP icon
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    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, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • grep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Rummage.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceRummage is also Free and Open Source
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. 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.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to Rummage.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryRummage is Free and Open Source
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. regexxer icon
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    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 together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to Rummage.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryRummage is Free and Open Source
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