Best windows grep

AJC Grep 1.1

AJC Software

AJC Grep is a powerful file finder, text search, replace and data extraction program for Windows. This is a major time saving tool for developers, documenters, web designers and anyone who has to search and replace in a large number of files. AJC Grep is very easy to use and is a vast improvement over the built in Windows search facility.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $45.00 US

Size: 1452 K

Released: Dec 07, 2004

Download: http://www.ajcsoft.com/Downloads/AJCGrep.zip

Keywords: Grep, find, replace, search

Fomdigests 1

Soft Experience

Fom is an automated e-mail list for discussing Foundations Of Mathematics. Iinstead of receiving each fom message as an individual e-mail, you will receive groups of messages clumpsed together. Helps to work with fom-digests groups of messages.

Platform: Windows

Education

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 1757 K

Released: Apr 21, 2005

Download: http://peccatte.karefil.com/software/ChercherFom/fom-lookup.zip

Keywords: Foundations Of Mathematics, digest, e-mail, grep, fom-digests

RQ Search and Replace 1.71

MiraSoftware

Search and replace text in files - batch text replacement software utility for Windows. Find and replace (multistring) text bloks, whole words, "enclosed blocks", Html tags and attributes. MS Word, RTF supported. Replace, delete, insert.. operations Wildcards in MS Word documents. For html tags - delete tag and/or text in tag - add, delete or change tag attributes Powerfull backup manager provides safety of all replacement operations.

Platform: Windows

Web Developer Tools

Type: Shareware

Cost: $19.00 US

Size: 929 K

Released: Dec 11, 2006

Download: http://www.miraxem.com/rqsr.zip

Keywords: Search window, replacer, multiline, mass, replace in string

RegexBuddy 3.0.3

Just Great Software

Perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Easily create and clearly understand regex patterns. Test any regex on sample strings and files. Use the regex with automatic source code snippets. Collect regex libraries for future use.

Platform: Windows

Education

Type: Shareware

Cost: $39.95 US

Size: 8615 K

Released: Jul 18, 2007

Download: http://www.regexbuddy.com/cgi-bin/SetupRegexBuddyDemo.exe

Keywords: Pattern, split, egrep, pcre, perl

PowerGREP 3.4.1

Just Great Software

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word, Excel and PDF, etc. Find the information you want with powerful text patterns (regular expressions) specifying the form of what you want, instead of literal text. Search and replace with one or many regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, etc. Extract statistics and knowledge from logs files.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $149.00 US

Size: 5496 K

Released: Jul 18, 2007

Download: http://www.powergrep.com/cgi-bin/SetupPowerGREPDemo.exe

Keywords: Regular expressions, regex, regular expression, regexes, search and replace

Eluent Tools 1.8

Eluent Software, L.L.C.

Eluent Tools is a collection of utilities that includes Eluent Replace, a GUI-based, interactive, multi-file search and replace tool that uses Perl regular expressions and scripting, Eluent Find, a file contents searcher and viewer, and much more.

Platform: Windows

Developer Tools

Type: Shareware

Cost: $20.00 US

Size: 2365 K

Released: Oct 02, 2003

Download: http://www.eluent.com/dl/eltools.zip

Keywords: Visual Studio, NET, Indexing Service, Time, Date

Examine32 Text Search 4.70

Aquila Software

Examine32 Text Search is a fast and versatile text search utility. It can search both text and binary files using ordinary text, the logical operators OR, AND, NOT and XOR, and GREP regular expressions. Files within ZIP archives can be searched. Searches can be across multiple drives over networks or can be restricted to a single folder.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $39.00 US

Size: 869 K

Released: Sep 29, 2008

Download: http://www.examine32.com/Examine32TrialSetup.exe

Keywords: Text Search Utility, Text Retrieval, GREP

GREPPES Text Tools 2.4

Intelligence Services

PDGREPPE : Pattern Definition GREP; FGREPPE : Fast Fixed GREP; Both edit Pattern matches in files; PDGREPPE uses Extended Regular Expressions that are like wildcards (?*) and reuses patterns. FGREPPE uses FIXED/literal patterns. MANY options.

Platform: Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp 4

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $15.00 US

Size: 321 K

Released: Sep 25, 2002

Download: http://isvs.tripod.com

Keywords: Greps, edit, magic, wildcards

PENTA Text Tools 2.4

Intelligence Services

Combination of GREPPES Text Tools and TRI Text Tools in ONE Package. PDGREPPE: Pattern Definition GREP. FGREPPE: Fast Fixed GREP with Pattern Editing. PDGREPPE searches by Extended Regular Expressions. NLX, STRINGS and HEAD provide support and basic filter functions for other standard TEXT file operations. Options: screen paging, line wrap, descent into file system w/ multiple drives and MANY other options.

Platform: Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp 4

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $20.00 US

Size: 421 K

Released: Sep 25, 2002

Download: http://isvs.tripod.com

Keywords: Translate, new, lines, newlines, visible

XchangeCL 1.5

SadMan Software

Need to change some text that could be in hundreds of text files? Well XchangeCL can make this easy for you. It will find files using wild cards and find and replace multiple strings in each one.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $40.00 US

Size: 470 K

Released: Jan 31, 2005

Download: http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/xchangecl.zip

Keywords: Substitute, exchange, change, swap, utility

Search 3.1

SadMan Software

Handy-dandy text file search utility will quickly and easily find those files containing piece(s) of text. It allows boolean combination (AND/OR/AND NOT) and remembers your previous searches to save you re-entering commonly used configurations. It can show you the lines from the file that matched, and you can simply drag the matched files to the application of your choice.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $25.00 US

Size: 956 K

Released: Oct 20, 2005

Download: http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/search.zip

Keywords: Where, look, scan, examine, tool

Xchange 2.7

SadMan Software

Need to change some text that could be in hundreds of text files? Well Xchange can make this easy for you. Just enter the text to find, the text to replace it with, drop in the files you want to work with, and press Go! It's done, easy!

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $25.00 US

Size: 627 K

Released: Jan 31, 2005

Download: http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/xchange.zip

EzSearch 3.6

Soft9000.com

EzSearch allows you to uniquely select and combine powerful date, time, content, file type, and even file location data into a uniquely explicit search operation. Once defined, you can save your searches for later re-use or refinement. Finally, after locating your data, EzSearch can allow you to click and launch your file in it's supporting program, or automatically generate a batch-file (script) to help you better manage your results.

Platform: Windows

Internet

Type: Shareware

Cost: $29.95 US

Size: 1763 K

Released: Nov 28, 2003

Download: http://www.soft9000.com/EZSEARCH.EXE

Keywords: Files, engine, search-engine, robot, free

Replace Tool 1.71

FraseTech

Fast, easy to use utility find and replace utility for webmasters and developers. Special HTML-mode for easy and visual updating and editing of HTML tags. Perl-styled and simple Grep regular expressions are supported.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $29.95 US

Size: 996 K

Released: Jun 08, 2004

Download: http://www.replacetool.com/rtool.zip

Keywords: RegExp, SGrep

Advanced Find and Replace 2.3

Abacre Software

Performs search of local files with smart queries as with AlvaVista. Allows replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. With batch replace operation you can easily replace or update hundreds of different links in several files. Saves results in XML and other formats. Works with command line params. Extremely fast, easy to use and excellent documentation is included. It is a great time-saver for programmers and Webmasters.