TextCrawler Alternatives

TextCrawler is described as 'Fantastic tool for anyone who works with text files. This cool utility enables you to instantly find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders. It utilises a powerful Regular Expression engine to enable you to create sophisticated' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are eight alternatives to TextCrawler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best TextCrawler alternative is dnGREP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextCrawler are Find and Replace (FNR), grep, ugrep 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • dnGREP is the most popular Windows alternative to TextCrawler.

    • dnGREP is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TextCrawler.

    • dnGREP is Free and Open SourceTextCrawler is Free and Proprietary
    • dnGREP is LightweightTextCrawler 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • grep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to TextCrawler.

    • grep is Free and Open SourceTextCrawler is Free 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Advanced Find and Replace is the most popular commercial alternative to TextCrawler.

    • Advanced Find and Replace is Paid and ProprietaryTextCrawler is Free and Proprietary
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    Search and Replace for Windows is a fast, easy to use grep utility for search and replace in multiple files, directories and archives. Supports grep style Regular Expressions. Script language for webmasters and programmers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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