spot AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like spot

spot is described as 'Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are six alternatives to spot for Linux, Mac, BSD and Windows. The best spot alternative is ripgrep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like spot are ack, App-Rak, Gawk and Mawk.

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Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double...

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    ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    ripgrep Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Support for regular expressions
    4.  PHP IDE
    5.  Ngnix Caching

    ripgrep VS spot

     
    • ripgrep is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to spot.

    • ripgrep is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to spot.

    • ripgrep is Free and Open Sourcespot is also Free and Open Source
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    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 types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    ack Features

    1.  Full-Text Search
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Search and Replace

    ack VS spot

     
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    App::Rak provides a CLI called rak that allows you to look for a pattern in (a selection of files) from one or more directories recursively. It has been modeled after utilities such as grep, ack, ag and rg, with a little bit of find mixed in, and -n and -p parameters of many...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD

    App-Rak Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Batch Rename Files
    3.  Full-Text Search
    4.  Text substitution
    5.  Comma Separated Values
    6.  Support for regular expressions
    7.  Regex substitution

    App-Rak VS spot

     
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    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 Gnu's interpreter for the awk language.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Gawk Features

    1.  Interpreter

    Gawk VS spot

     
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    mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Mawk Features

    1.  Interpreter

    Mawk VS spot

     
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    UniversalCodeGrep Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions

    UniversalCodeGrep VS spot

     
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