Cathy VS dnGREP

Cathy

An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool.

dnGREP

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.

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2018-10-27

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2022-04-23

Cathy's Curse is WILD!! | Review & Analysis

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Cathy mentions (3)

Cathy alternative?
I use Cathy (http://rva.mtg.sk/) to catalog partitioned 2T drives and have done for years. About a year ago I started getting errors, likely because I moved to single partition 4T drives or lost out after a Windows 10 upgrade. The program just couldn't parse the data anymore and would freeze or end abruptly. Source: 6 months ago
Any good recommendations for Linux software similar to VVV (VirtualVolumeView) which is cross-platform but apparently broken on Linux/MacOSX ?
So apparently some people have done a python implementation of Robert Vasicek‘s popular cataloging tool „cathy“. Source: about 1 year ago
How do you keep track of it all?
I've used Cathy for ages and it works extremely well for tracking (and searching) offline HDD contents. Source: over 2 years ago

dnGREP mentions (9)

IrfanView
Chipping in dnGrep. Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files. http://dngrep.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Research aid, multiple text file searching.
You can try Recoll (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.html - instant result when searching, but needs indexing first and you might want to donate a little for windows version) or dnGrep (https://dngrep.github.io/ - slower but free and do not need much setup). Source: over 1 year ago
What are the best apps you've been using for a long time on Windows?
DnGrep - TL;DR : grep with less headaches, a gui, and less features. Source: over 1 year ago
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DnGrep is a Windows tool that allows you to search text, Word, Excel, PDF and archive files using text, regular expression, XPath and phonetic queries. Features include search/replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File Explorer and more. Kindly suggested by majkinetor. Source: about 2 years ago
What tool(program or cli) did you wish you knew about earlier
- dnGrep – Powerful search for Windows - https://dngrep.github.io/. Source: about 2 years ago