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A free file finding and text searching tool

Windows Grep is a tool for searching files for text strings that you specify. Although Windows and many other programs have file searching capabilities built-in, none can match the power. Mar 01, 2015 As every Linux user surely knows, grep is a reliable command-line tool for in-depth file searching. Still, many beginners avoid it because they dislike the terminal. The apps presented in this article aren’t exactly alternatives to grep because in some usage scenarios grep is truly irreplaceable. Windows Grep has support for search-and-replace text. This is very helpful if you want to edit files en-masse.

Regular expression text search
- High-performance search algorithm
- Regex syntax is a common subset of Perl, PHP and Java (see the Regex Reference).
- Simple search mode for literal strings, when not using regexes

Wildcard and regular expression file search
- Files to find or search can be specified as a list including wildcards
- Files to find or search can be specified with a regular expression
- Multiple files can also be specified with the mouse

Recursive directory search
- Find and search matching files anywhere on the file-system

Save, name and manage text search patterns
- Frequently used text search patterns may be saved, named and edited

Interactive, incremental search
- Searching while you type, to find results quicker
- Feedback on regex syntax errors while you type, to build regexes quicker

Extract data with capturing groups
- Capturing groups (using bracket characters '(' and ')' in a regex) extract strings from files (see the Regex Reference).

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Tabular presentation of search results
- Columns include the filename, line number, text of the line, and results of capturing groups
- Columns can be sorted

Export/copy of search results in many formats
- Export search results to a file or the clipboard
- Configurable selection of search result columns
- Configurable prefix, suffix, alignment and truncation

Search files of any size (> 2GB)

Many file formats
- Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)
- Unix text files (lines end in LF) Belkin n10117 f5u409 driver.
- Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls)

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Flexible configuration options and storage
- Many configurable user preferences
- Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit
- Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)
- Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users

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Single small executable, no installer
- No installation needed, start using the tool immediately
- Small executable can be run from the network
- Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove

grep is a tool that originated from the UNIX world during the 1970’s. It can search through files and folders (directories in UNIX) and check which lines in those files match a given regular expression. grep will output the file names and the line numbers or the actual lines that matched the regular expression. All in all a very useful tool for locating information stored anywhere on your computer, even (or especially) if you don’t really know where to look.

The Next Generation Visual grep Tool

Like the classic grep utility, PowerGREP can search through files and folders on your computer using regular expressions. But the results produced by PowerGREP are much more useful. In addition to the filenames, line numbers and text, you will see the actual regex match highlighted in the results. You can double-click filenames, line numbers and matches in the results to open the file at the match position in PowerGREP. All the matches in that file will also be indicated in the file viewer. Most files will also be shown with syntax coloring applied. All this makes it very easy for you to inspect the context of a match.

PowerGREP’s regular expression engine is fully compatible with popular regex flavors such as those used by Perl, Java and the .NET framework. This regular expression syntax is far more advanced than the syntax used by most grep tools. The basic principles are still the same, though, and nearly all regular expressions used with the classic grep tool will work the same in PowerGREP. The Perl regex syntax is also used by other languages such as JavaScript, Python, PHP and Ruby.

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Beyond grep: Search and Replace Sequences

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With PowerGREP, you can do more than just searching through files. You can perform powerful time-saving search and replace operations. All backreferences (if any) you use in the search regex can be used in the replacement text. Create search and replace sequences to perform complex search and replace operations in as many steps as you want.