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Add to SafariWhen comparing PowerGREP vs AstroGrep, the Slant community recommends PowerGREP for most people. In the question“What are the best grep implementations for Windows?” PowerGREP is ranked 2nd while AstroGrep is ranked 3rd.
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Pros
Pro Price is reasonable for such a powerful tool.
Pro 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.
Pro Accessible from the right-click menu
You can easily search inside folders by right clicking them.
Pro Powerful data collection features
Pro Supports ZIP files
Pro 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.
Pro Can search within word documents
Comes with a plugin to search within word documents.
Pro Allows adding exclusions for files and folders
Exclusions are flexible from file extensions to folder names or paths.
Pro 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 %1Use quotes around file: checked
Pro 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.
Pro Small .exe
Pro Supports exporting results
You can export the results from a search into a text file.
Pro Portable
Can be zipped and uploaded to a USB and then unzipped when needed.
Cons
Con Paid
PowerGREP is not free and costs at least 119 EUROS for a single license.
Con Complicated to use GUI, not intuitive to use
Con Cannot search in PDF
Does not support searching in PDF files.
