The Silver Searcher Alternatives

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 Chocolatey 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. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. Windows Grep icon
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    The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.

    40 Windows Grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. EasyGrep icon
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    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  5. Rummage icon
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    Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage allows for literal or regex searches and has configurations for limiting the files etc.

    27 Rummage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. rare icon
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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Zoekt icon
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    Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce "zooked" in English).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
    • Zoekt is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to The Silver Searcher.

    • Zoekt is Free and Open SourceThe Silver Searcher is also Free and Open Source
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