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grep VS Google Desktop

Compare grep VS Google Desktop and see what are their differences

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grep logo grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular...

Google Desktop logo Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop.
  • grep Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-29
  • Google Desktop Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-02

grep videos

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GREP COMMAND : IN-DEPTH GUIDE [ PART 1 ]

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  • Review - Linux Terminal Basics: Grep

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to grep and Google Desktop)

grep

Google Desktop

File Manager
87 87%
File Manager
13% 13
Note Taking
100 100%
Note Taking
0% 0
Mac
0 0%
Mac
100% 100
Clipboard Manager
90 90%
Clipboard Manager
10% 10

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Desktop seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

grep mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of grep yet. Tracking of grep recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Google Desktop mentions (1)

  • Unable to search for 'Word' documents that have content in headers/footers. They just don't appear.
    Google used to have a desktop product… but that was a long time ago (http://desktop.google.com). Depending on how technical you are, there is Elasticsearch and Tika that can crawl office documents. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing grep and Google Desktop, you can also consider the following products

grepWin - grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for...

SwiftSearch - SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need...

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, ...

Everything by Voidtools - Everything. Locate files and folders by name instantly. Everything. Small installation file. Clean and simple user interface.

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

DocFetcher - DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application.

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