4 Like ripgrep Good alternative? YES NO ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
5 Like ack Good alternative? YES NO Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file... Free Open Source Mac Linux File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
3 Like Gawk Good alternative? YES NO The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code. Gawk is... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like Mawk Good alternative? YES NO mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like UniversalCodeGrep Good alternative? YES NO UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
