Windows Grep Alternatives

Windows Grep has been discontinued. Similar apps include grepWin, which is free and open source. Other options are grep, dnGREP, SearchMyFiles and AstroGrep. File Search Utilities like Windows Grep are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and the web.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. A very capable Windows Grep, search, replace and data extraction tool.

    • Search for files using powerful text matching commands called Regular Expressions.
    • You can search/replace one or more than one information on one or more than one file resources.
    • After the searcing proce.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. KFileReplace is a KDE utility that replace some strings with others in a lot of files in an only operation. Then it's very easy to update some URLs, filenames, ... which are written in all files of a project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
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