49 Like grepWin Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Support for regular expressions Add a feature
20 Like AstroGrep Good alternative? YES NO AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and... Free Open Source Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
14 Like grep Good alternative? YES NO grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku Support for regular expressions Add a feature
22 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
11 Like BareGrep Good alternative? YES NO A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *... Freemium Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
6 Like Windows Grep Alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature Discontinued Official site has been replaced with few sentences of text without links thanking for the past 25 years. The program is safely downloadable at CNET aka Download.com.
3 Like Batch Files Good alternative? YES NO Replace, insert, delete, copy, move, format, extract, convert, encode, encrypt text and bytes in multiple files. Process 1000s files using multiple CPU cores in manual... Commercial Windows Batch conversion Batch Editing Batch rename files Batch processing Support for regular expressions Add a feature
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like fnr.exe Good alternative? YES NO Open Source tool to find/replace text in multiple files. Extremely simple to use. Command line support to run Replace using batch file. Features Single file... Free Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
6 Like Replace Text Good alternative? YES NO Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows. At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace... Free Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
3 Like FAR - Find And Replace Alternative? YES NO FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
1 Like Multiple Search and Replace Alternative? YES NO Multiple Search and Replace is a powerful utility that can search and replace text in multiple files at the same time. It supports Text, Webpage, Microsoft Office, Rich... Free Windows No features added Add a feature
1 Like Text Workbench Good alternative? YES NO Text Workbench is the universal search and replace tool featuring full Unicode and UTF-8 support. Text Workbench will save you hours of manual editing you spend to... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
1 Like Advanced File Finder Good alternative? YES NO Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified... Commercial Windows Batch processing Add a feature
