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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.

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.

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, ...

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.

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.

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.

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. »

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

Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions.- Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more!- Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and contextual tooltips making it easy to design patterns.- Specialized RegEx tools like html/xml tag selector, line selector, or number selector help you make RegEx patterns faster.- Integrated RegEx Builder helps with testing your RegEx patterns by letting you perform search and replace operations on sample text and automatically highlighting matches.- Program supports numerous text transformations that can be performed on text matched by your RegEx patterns.- Some text transforms include: change letter case; trim; reverse order of characters; sort list; shuffle list; remove duplicates; compute hash; encrypt/decrypt; URL encode/decode; Morse code converter; escape/unescape string; operations with numbers (matched text is treated as a number that you can then change); etc.- 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. »

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

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.

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

Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files.- All files can then be saved to file list; copied to a new location specified using either absolute or relative folder paths; or renamed.- Program can use advanced wildcards, RegEx, and case sensitivity options when checking file names.- You can specify file name patterns to exclude from search, as well as directory scanning depth.- When looking for files, program can inspect file contents by looking for specific text or byte pattern. File search can be further limited by specifing file size, dates, and attribute parameters.- 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.- Perform different operations on different files with conditional processing and process branching.- Detailed processing logs are available in both user interface and log files.- Run multiple program instances simultaneously. »

If your search engine can only locate filenames, you are missing out on the wealth of 300 windows file properties. DeskRule is a fast and reliable desktop search engine handling all document attributes, from simple name and contents to photo geolocation tags.