The Silver Searcher AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like The Silver Searcher

The Silver Searcher is described as 'Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Silver Searcher for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best The Silver Searcher alternative is Agent Ransack, which is free. Other great apps like The Silver Searcher are grepWin, ripgrep, AstroGrep and dnGREP.

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  1. Agent Ransack icon
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    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    75 Agent Ransack alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Agent Ransack Features

    1.  File Search
    2.  Search-in-files
    3.  Context Menu extension
    4.  Outlook search
    5.  Ad-free

    Agent Ransack VS The Silver Searcher

     
    • Agent Ransack is the most popular Windows alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • Agent Ransack is the most popular free alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • Agent Ransack is Freemium and ProprietaryThe Silver Searcher is Free and Open Source
  2. grepWin icon
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    grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

    33 grepWin alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Support for regular expressions
    6.  External editor support
    7.  Command Line Options

    grepWin VS The Silver Searcher

     
    • grepWin is the most popular Open Source alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • grepWin is Free and Open SourceThe Silver Searcher is also Free and Open Source
    • grepWin is LightweightThe Silver Searcher is not according to our users
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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.

    14 ripgrep alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • 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 The Silver Searcher

     
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    WeiHua Liu
    Positive Sep 20, 2022
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    Ripgrep understands Chinese better than The-Silver-Searcher.

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    • ripgrep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • ripgrep is Free and Open SourceThe Silver Searcher is also Free and Open Source
  4. AstroGrep icon
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    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    38 AstroGrep alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Portable
    4.  Graphical User Interface
    5.  Support for regular expressions

    AstroGrep VS The Silver Searcher

     
  5. 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...

    56 dnGREP alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for regular expressions
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Full-Text Search
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  No registration required

    dnGREP VS The Silver Searcher

     
  6. grep icon
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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    41 grep alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku

    grep Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions

    grep VS The Silver Searcher

     
  7. 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.

    80 PowerGREP alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows

    PowerGREP Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Search and Replace

    PowerGREP VS The Silver Searcher

     
    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryThe Silver Searcher is Free and Open Source
  8. ack icon
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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

    Application type

    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 The Silver Searcher

     
  9. SeekFast icon
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    SeekFast is a software tool for quick and easy text search on your computer. SeekFast can search in all Microsoft Word documents (doc), PDF, RTF and text files in a folder and its subfolders on your computer.

    6 SeekFast alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • BG flagBulgaria
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    SeekFast Features

    1.  Search-in-files
    2.  Content Searching
    3.  File content indexing

    SeekFast VS The Silver Searcher

     
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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

    Application type

    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 The Silver Searcher

     
  11. Find in Files icon
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    Full-text for files online. Instant find text in files. Search word in pdf, txt, csv, json, html, ...

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online

    Find in Files Features

    1.  Full-Text Search

    Find in Files VS The Silver Searcher

     
    • Find in Files is the most popular Web-based alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • Find in Files is Free and ProprietaryThe Silver Searcher is Free and Open Source
  12. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux

    SeaGOAT Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions
    2.  Code Search
    3.  Vector Database

    SeaGOAT VS The Silver Searcher

     
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