Windows Grep Alternatives

Windows Grep is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windows Grep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and BSD apps. The best Windows Grep alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Grep are AstroGrep, dnGREP, SearchMyFiles and grep.

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  1. Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SeaGOAT icon
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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.

    41 SeaGOAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. BareGrep icon
     13 likes

    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. regexxer icon
     8 likes

    regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Provides search across local files, Outlook emails, network shares, and cloud drives, offers secure peer-to-peer sharing, secure real-time messaging, advanced search profiles, free access, multi-view results, query refinement, and quick keyboard shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
     
  7. UltraFinder icon
     2 likes

    UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Replace Text icon
     6 likes

    Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently. With its built-in converters, its excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. EasyGrep icon
     2 likes

    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Find and replace in multiple files with regular expressions, multi-line search and replace, Unicode support, preview, and undo.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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