15 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 File-search 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 File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
3 Like ripgrep Good alternative? YES NO ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
3 Like The Silver Searcher Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD File-search Add a feature
5 Like ack Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
1 Like spot Good alternative? YES NO Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find... Free Open Source Linux File-search Add a feature
