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- Mac
Apps similar to SeaGOAT include DocFetcher, which is free and open source. Other options are Agent Ransack, grepWin, grep and ripgrep. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like SeaGOAT, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Easy alternative to Grep. Portable. Supports extended regular expression syntax.

Search & Replace Master is a freeware. It looks through multiple files for a string or pattern and can also replace it with another string or pattern.


Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.


Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.
TexFinderX is a freeware tool to search and replace text inside entire folders.
TexFinderX is MacOS X, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and Seven compatible.
Main features Search and replace text - with regular expression or not - in entire folders with the ability to filter de.


Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.




Rummage is a 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.



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.
A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool.



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