ripgrep Alternatives

ripgrep is described as 'Command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ripgrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best ripgrep alternative is Agent Ransack, which is free. Other great apps like ripgrep are grep, dnGREP, ugrep and WSearch.

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    Mawk

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    mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    spot

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    Tiny ack-style file search utility. All arguments constitute the search text. No need to wrap most searches in double quotes. Short & written in Bash - just find & grep: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.

    6 spot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    JREPL.BAT

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    Performs a global regular expression search and replace operation on each line of ASCII input from stdin and prints the result to stdout. Serves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
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    UniversalCodeGrep

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    UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Zoekt

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    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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    rare

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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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