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PowerGREP
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Price is reasonable for such a powerful tool.
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Paid
PowerGREP is not free and costs at least 119 EUROS for a single license.
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Easy to use GUI
PowerGREP has a very easy to use GUI, with a great preview mode that allows you to be sure on what you are replacing.
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Complicated to use GUI, not intuitive to use
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Accessible from the right-click menu
You can easily search inside folders by right clicking them.
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Powerful data collection features
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Supports ZIP files
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AstroGrep
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Very fast
AstroGrep is very fast, it works great and runs searches smoothly even on HDD, with the difference in speed between the former and SDD not very noticeable.
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Cannot search in PDF
Does not support searching in PDF files.
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Can search within word documents
Comes with a plugin to search within word documents.
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Allows adding exclusions for files and folders
Exclusions are flexible from file extensions to folder names or paths.
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Can be configured to load text editor on specific line and column
This works double-clicking on the file results or in the preview section. For Notepad++: Command line: -n%2 -c%3 %1 Use quotes around file: checked
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Shows more than the line search
AstroGrep can show more than just the line search, for example the --context=NUM of a command-line GREP.
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Small .exe
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Supports exporting results
You can export the results from a search into a text file.
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Portable
Can be zipped and uploaded to a USB and then unzipped when needed.
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GrepWin
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Free and open source
GrepWin is completely free and open source. It's released under GPL.
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Can only search .txt files
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RegEx support
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No way to export the results
If one wishes to export the results from grep into a text file or any other format, there's no way to do it with GrepWin.
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Portable Version
A portable version without installation is available.
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Can search hidden directories/files
GrepWin can also search for hidden directories or files with no problem.
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Windows
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C++
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