Windows Grep 2.3.0.2269

3.6 out of 5 stars 3.6 (5 votes)

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Windows 2000/9x/XP / Shareware; $30.00 / 4,173 downloads

Windows Grep is a tool for searching files on your disks for occurrences of text strings that you specify. Although Windows and many other programs have file searching capabilities built-in, none can match the power and versatility of this program. It 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. In addition to searching, it can also perform global replacing in your files, with complete safety. It is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.

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  • Latest Changes

    - Search results can be saved as plain text in addition to HTML and CSV

    - Results window printing

    - Fixed font output can be selected to preserve the display of tabs

    - HTML output in the view window, and CSS Styling allows virtually all aspects of the view window to be customised by the end user

    - Double-clicking in the top file list window will now launch the associated application of the file clicked on

    - Double-clicking on a .PAR file now starts the search right away

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    dougk2

    Reviewing 2.3.0.2262 Beta (Jan 5, 2005)

    Comparing xfind to Windows Grep is like comparing a Chevy Corvair to a Corvette! This is a much more advanced search tool. Granted, you can get similar functionality using a command line grep in a UNIX shell, but if you want the convenience of a GUI, Windows Grep is the way to go. It includes quick, regex and soundex searches, date & size filters, settings for unformatted, delimited and fixed-width text files (also binary files) and a search & replace option. The output window is configurable as well.

    I've used this tool for the past 3 years and have no complaints. However it appears that since there are no bugs to fix, the author has stopped development of this tool. This beta version was released two years ago!

  2. 2 out of 5 stars
    otonet

    Reviewing 2.3.0.2262 Beta (Jan 5, 2005)

    Honestly $30 is way too much if you just want to find strings. Looks like Xteq X-Find does the same job and is free
    http://www.xteq.com/products/xfnd/
    Or otherwise use plain cygwin grep.

    If you need the replace feature, you may consider it, but there sure is freeware around for this, too.

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  1. Apr 1, 2009 - 6:58 PM
    stankovski

    There is an open source (FREE) GUI GREP tool called dnGREP that is easy to use (has windows explorer integration, bookmarks, etc.) and is very powerful.

    Here are some of the features:
    * Shell integration (ability to search from explorer)
    * Plain text/regex search (including case-insensitive search)
    * Undo functionality
    * Optional integration with text editor (like notepad++)
    * Bookmarks (ability to save regex searches for the future)

    http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/

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