What is the best alternative to AstroGrep?

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score 68 · Answer 1

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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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Powerful data collection features

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Supports ZIP files

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score 27 · Answer 2

GrepWin

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Free and open source

GrepWin is completely free and open source. It's released under GPL. See More

Top Con

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. See More

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Portable Version

A portable version without installation is available. See More

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Can search hidden directories/files

GrepWin can also search for hidden directories or files with no problem. See More

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Platforms:Windows

Technology:C++

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score 14 · Answer 3

GNU grep

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Great for people used to *NIX systems

Since it's pretty much the same grep used on UNIX systems, people who have used grep on any *NIX system will find themselves at home with the Windows version. See More

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Cannot handle files

When searching through files with 10MB or more it starts having issues and even crashes depending on the file size and the machine it's running on. See More

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It handles files of any size

At least in Linux. See More

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