Open Source Grep Tools

Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.

Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.

This utility is intended to help in search or grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types. For help/usage, see the wiki page: https://sourceforge.net/p/searcher/wiki/Home/

This program is a GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep. Pdfgrep search text in multiple PDF files and grep can serach text in multiple text files. You can use regular expressions for the search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). This GUI and the command line tools work without indexing. The following options are used: -i (ignore case) and -F (fixed strings), -n (Print page number or output lines) and -H (Print the file name for each match) from the command line tool. The -r option will be done by the program itself. Performance: This GUI works well when searching in several hundreds of documents (depends on the speed of your computer and the length of the documents). Config Dir: [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui Available Languages: - English - German You can add your own language by editing the file [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui/language.set

SURF FIND is a simple and fast grep-like text search software, which keeps the previous search results as separate tabs. It also implements file caching mechanism so that the subsequent searches for the same set of files will be completed faster. Each tab has the list of found files and lines on the left, and the text viewer on the right to show the selected line on the list. On the text viewer, user can select a new keyword and start a new search instantly. On the list view, external editor can be invoked by double clicks. Also, the found files can be drag & dropped to other window. This project is a clone of TabTextFinder (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/tabtextfinder/simple/) dedicated to Japanese character sets with automatic encoding detection. This clone omits the automatic encoding detection and uses the default encoding by default.

CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep

Sgrep (sorted grep) is a much faster alternative to traditional Unix grep when searching large files, because sgrep searches sorted input files using a fast binary search to find matching lines.

GUI of indexed grep in Windows and Linux. A source code indexing tool, near instant code search tool and navigation. Good for small to medium size code base. It supports fuzzy matching, auto complete, and live grep for real time query. Manage different projects and switch for different projects Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor. Source code and demo video in: https://github.com/ychclone/blink

Search words in text files, display matching lines in tabs. Options to save results, exclude words, display the line numbers. Tiny file for searching big text files. Please leave feedback to help improve the application. Documentation coming soon.

The findstr is searching the words in the text and binary files in several codepages. The famouse 'grep' is very slow and get a lot memory for large binary files without ends of lines - findstr is fast and light, but it doesn't use regular expressions.

A Python/Tk gui for find and grep. FindEmAll is, compared with other similar file search tools, fast and resource-efficient and independent from any desktop environment (no Gnome or KDE libraries required).

This is a simplified version of the GNU Grep. Search a RegExp on a file that contain all alphanumeric characters. Use special symbols like @ and # to extend the search. Now you can set Case Sensitive option and ignore withespaces during the search.

Network grep, on steroids

Java regular expression matching

Visual pattern matching with regular expression search tool

cgrep provides many of the features of grep, egrep, and fgrep with greatly enhanced performance along with many additional features, one of which is the ability to output the context (surrounding lines) of the matching lines.

This is a simple Java front-end for the UNIX grep. It lets you search file contents also if you are not familiar with the command line or the regular expression syntax.

greps is a script written in perl which wraps the regular installed grep with new options that can make the search faster and return more relevant results (or less non-relevant results). The usage of greps is same as you would use grep, and all options that are available with grep can be used in the same way also with greps. Basically what greps does is allowing you to choose also the patterns or extentions of relevant files. Then it executes find for finding such files, and executes grep on those files (find | xargs grep).

Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to grep.

SourceGlob is a Win32 tool for code search and visual display with code highlighting - like a visual grep tool. Windows Shell integration for fast access is provided. The current relaease is dedicated as preview.

Finddupe is a VERY FAST command line C program to catalog very large archives, identifying duplicate files even when offline. It has many features. You can easily grep a catalog to find what you have, and locate where it is.