Windows Grep Alternatives

Windows Grep is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windows Grep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best Windows Grep alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Grep are AstroGrep, dnGREP, SearchMyFiles and TextSeek.

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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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