Find in Files (quick search text) Alternatives

Find in Files (quick search text) is described as 'Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Find in Files (quick search text), not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and Mozilla Firefox apps. The best Find in Files (quick search text) alternative is SingleFile, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Find in Files (quick search text) are HTTrack, FSearch, Diigo and DocFetcher.

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    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

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    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
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  2. FileLocator icon
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    FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.

    55 FileLocator alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. 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
     
  4. SwiftSearch icon
     21 likes

    SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  5. XSearch icon
     13 likes

    XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...

    75 XSearch alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6. ANGRYsearch icon
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    Instant file search, showing results as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. ScrapBook X icon
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    ScrapBook X is a Firefox addon based on ScrapBook Plus and also integrating several features from the latest versions of ScrapBook.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
     
  8. The most powerful online cloud based download tool for websites, it copy and download all links from a website and can crawl link structure.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Download web and FTP sites for offline use on Windows, with support for bulk and scheduled tasks, selective downloading, Chromium engine, password protection, social site capture, and migration of projects or settings to new systems or external media.

    31 Offline Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. Scherlokk icon
     6 likes

    Performs high-speed file searches using a proprietary engine across built-in, portable, and network drives, including hidden and non-indexed files, supports detailed result filtering, provides file comparison, hex editing, autosave, advanced sorting, and multitasking.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  11. 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 .hignore, .gitignore contents.

    21 The Silver Searcher alternatives

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    • BSD
     
  12. FileSearchy icon
     37 likes

    File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.

    76 FileSearchy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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