Alternatives to Windows Grep for all platforms with any license

grepWin

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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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AstroGrep

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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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grep

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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PowerGREP

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
File-search Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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The Silver Searcher

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 OS X Linux BSD
File-search Add a feature

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Lookeen Desktop Search

A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents...

Freemium Windows Microsoft Office Outlook
File-search Indexed search Outlook search Add a feature

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dnGREP

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 Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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Exselo Desktop

Outlook and desktop search to help you search and find information from your files, emails and documents on your computer. Now also with a secure p2p network so you can...

Free Windows Microsoft Office Outlook
Outlook search File-search Indexed search Outlook integration ... Real time collaboration Share files Add a feature

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BareGrep

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *...

Freemium Windows
File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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regexxer

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
Search and replace Add a feature

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AIKIN Desktop HyperSearch

AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user...

Freemium Windows
Semantic Search Add a feature

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FAR - Find And Replace

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 OS X Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

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Batch File Replace

Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match...

Freemium Windows
Batch Editing Support for Batch Mode Batch processing File-search ... Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Search-in-files Add a feature

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Multi String Search

Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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fnr.exe

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

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