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   ripgrep

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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.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • United States

   

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   ack

    10 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Haiku

   • United States

   

   

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   Gawk

    4 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   App-Rak

    1 like

   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...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Mac
   • Windows
   • BSD

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   Mawk

    1 like

   mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

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8. U

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   UniversalCodeGrep

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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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • File Search

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

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