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package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, `cron` jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including: * Can resume aborted downloads, using `REST` and `RANGE` * Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories * NLS-based message files for many different languages * Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally * Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft

grep alternatives

  • Agent Ransack

  • Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    tags: context-menu-extension email-search file-management file-search outlook-search
  • grepWin

  • grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders. The use of regular expressions allows for a very powerful search and replace.

    tags: Portable command-line-start file-search pcre regular-expression
  • AstroGrep

  • AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    tags: file-search regular-expression grep
  • PowerGREP

  • Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain text or regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, ...

    tags: Portable file-search grep perl regular-expression
  • dnGREP

  • dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File Explorer, and much more.

    tags: Portable file-search grep recursive regular-expression
  • ripgrep

  • ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

    tags: search-tool grep
  • The Silver Searcher

  • Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

    tags: code-search fast file-search grep
  • regexxer

  • 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.

    tags: development grep search-and-replace
  • Windows Grep

  • 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.

    tags: Discontinued filesystem regular-expression search-and-replace
  • Batch File Replace

  • Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files.- Includes multi-line text search & replace with wildcards, case-sensitivity, and match selection options.- Full support for Regular Expressions with syntax highlighting and match substitutions.- Built-in hex editor allows for easy entry of binary data to search & replace bytes.- Perform multiple replacements easily by entering plain-text or RegEx-based search-replace pairs into grid or import them from a file.- Process 1000s of files using multiple CPU cores in manual, automatic/continuous, triggered/scheduled, or console modes, or directly from Windows Explorer right-click menu.- Save files to output directory specified using either absolute or relative path, with original or new name defined by a mask.- Select files for processing based on their name, dates, size, and contents using advanced file search supporting RegEx and advanced wildcards.- Optionally merge together, split all, or zip processed files.- Perform different operations on different files with conditional processing and process branching.- Complete support for Regular Expressions (RegEx) and Unicode throughout the program.- Detailed processing logs are available in both user interface and log files.- Run multiple program instances simultaneously. »

    tags: Portable automation batch-editing batch-mode batch-processing
  • Replace Text

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

    tags: file-search regular-expression find-file
  • FAR - Find And Replace

  • FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

    tags: multiple-files regexp regular-expression rename-files search-and-replace
  • Baloo

  • Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

    tags: file-search indexer indexing
  • UltraFinder

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

    tags: file-search utility-computing