Search and Replace AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like Search and Replace

Search and Replace is described as 'Don't worry about those many files where you have to change a few things! There's no need to open every single file and edit them manually, Search and Replace does it all for you!' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Search and Replace for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Search and Replace alternative is dnGREP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Search and Replace are grep, ugrep, PowerGREP and Advanced Find and Replace.

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  1. 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

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    • Windows
     
    • dnGREP is the most popular Windows alternative to Search and Replace.

    • dnGREP is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Search and Replace.

    • dnGREP is Free and Open SourceSearch and Replace is Paid and Proprietary
    • dnGREP is LightweightSearch and Replace is not according to our users
  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.

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • grep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Search and Replace.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceSearch and Replace is Paid and Proprietary
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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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
     
  4. 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

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    • Windows
     
    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to Search and Replace.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietarySearch and Replace is also Paid and Proprietary
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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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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

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

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietarySearch and Replace is Paid and Proprietary
  7. Text Replacer icon
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    Text Replacer allows performing mass replacement of multiple occurrences of text in selected files or folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. SeaGOAT icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    Replace Text in Many Files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. EasyGrep icon
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    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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 substitutions; built-in hex editor to replace bytes; wildcards and case-sensitivity; Unicode.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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