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We've compiled a list of 30 free and paid alternatives to grep. The primary competitors include DocFetcher, Agent Ransack. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between grep and grepWin, dnGREP, AstroGrep. Also you can look at other similar options here: File Management Tools.


DocFetcher
Free Open Source

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application.

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently.

grepWin
Free Open Source

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for...

dnGREP
Free Open Source

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.

AstroGrep
Free Open Source

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility.

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to...

The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available...

Rummage
Free Open Source

Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files.

Baloo
Free Open Source

Baloo is the file indexing and file search framework for KDE Plasma.

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

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

grep Features

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