dnGREP AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like dnGREP

dnGREP is described as '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, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to dnGREP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best dnGREP alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dnGREP are grepWin, Clapgrep, ripgrep and SearchMyFiles.

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  1. DocFetcher icon

    DocFetcher

     129 likes

    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    129 DocFetcher alternatives

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    Comments about DocFetcher as an Alternative to dnGREP
    Hexaae
    Negative
    0

    Is not a Find/Replace tool

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    • DocFetcher is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to dnGREP.

    • DocFetcher is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to dnGREP.

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourcednGREP is also Free and Open Source
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focuseddnGREP is not according to our users
  2. grepWin icon

    grepWin

     75 likes

    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 menu to easily search selected folders.

    35 grepWin alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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  4. Clapgrep icon

    Clapgrep

     10 likes

    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    Comments about Clapgrep as an Alternative to dnGREP
    edwincastillo
    Positive
    0

    Supports regular expressions

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    • Clapgrep is Free and Open SourcednGREP is also Free and Open Source
    • Clapgrep is Privacy focuseddnGREP is not according to our users
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  6. ripgrep

     20 likes

    ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

    16 ripgrep alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. SearchMyFiles icon

    SearchMyFiles

     35 likes

    SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. AstroGrep icon

    AstroGrep

     33 likes

    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  10. FileLocator icon

    FileLocator

     35 likes

    FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. grep icon

    grep

     35 likes

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

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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  13. FAR - Find And Replace icon

    FAR - Find And Replace

     8 likes

    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 regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Find
     
  14. TextSeek icon

    TextSeek

     9 likes

    TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.

    104 TextSeek alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  15. Search Monkey icon

    Search Monkey

     35 likes

    A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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