The Silver Searcher Alternatives

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

ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.

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

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility.

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

Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep.

The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle...

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently.

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

Locate allows you to easily find your friends and family from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

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, ...

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.