Rummage Alternatives

Apps similar to Rummage include grepWin, which is free and open source. Other options are grep, dnGREP, AstroGrep and ugrep. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like Rummage, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and the web.

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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.

    37 grepWin alternatives

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

    48 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  3. dnGREP icon
     42 likes

    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...

    60 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  4. AstroGrep icon
     33 likes

    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.

    43 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  5.  4 likes

    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 more

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
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  6. 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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  7. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  8. 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

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. PowerGREP icon
     23 likes

    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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  10. SeaGOAT icon
     2 likes

    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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  11. regexxer icon
     8 likes

    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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  12. UltraFinder icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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