UniversalCodeGrep AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like UniversalCodeGrep

UniversalCodeGrep is described as '(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' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to UniversalCodeGrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best UniversalCodeGrep alternative is grep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like UniversalCodeGrep are ripgrep, dnGREP, ugrep and The Silver Searcher.

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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

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    • 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • US flagUnited States
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  4. dnGREP icon

    dnGREP

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    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...

    58 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • RU flagRussia
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  5. U

    ugrep

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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
    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
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  6. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    SeaGOAT

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    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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  9. ack icon

    ack

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    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

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • US flagUnited States
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  10. Win Grep - Visual Grep & Text Filter icon

    Win Grep - Visual Grep & Text Filter

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    Offers a visual grep interface for Windows, enabling fast text and log filtering with multi-phrase search, set operations like merge and intersection, Regex editor with real-time preview, Unicode support, and instant output. No command-line or scripts needed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    App-Rak

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    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

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  13. S

    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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  14. Zoekt icon

    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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