rare Alternatives

rare is described as 'Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!' and is an app. There are nine alternatives to rare for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best rare alternative is grep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rare are ripgrep, ugrep, The Silver Searcher and SeaGOAT.

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  1. grep icon

    grep

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

    47 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. R

    ripgrep

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    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.

    19 ripgrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • US flagUnited States
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  4. U

    ugrep

     4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
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  5. The Silver Searcher icon

    The Silver Searcher

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    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. SeaGOAT icon

    SeaGOAT

     2 likes

    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. ack icon

    ack

     10 likes

    Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • US flagUnited States
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  9. A

    App-Rak

     1 like

    App::Rak provides a CLI called rak that allows you to look for a pattern in (a selection of files) from one or more directories recursively. It has been modeled after utilities such as grep, ack, ag and rg, with a little bit of find mixed in, and -n and -p parameters of many...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  10. Windows Grep icon

    Windows Grep

     7 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  11. Zoekt icon

    Zoekt

     Like

    Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce "zooked" in English).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
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