When comparing BareGrep vs Windows Grep, the Slant community recommends BareGrep for most people. In the question“What are the best grep implementations for Windows?” BareGrep is ranked 8th while Windows Grep is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose BareGrep is:
With BareGrep you can save any search patterns that you use frequently.
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Pros
Pro Can save search patterns
With BareGrep you can save any search patterns that you use frequently.
Pro Search-and-replace support
Windows Grep has support for search-and-replace text. This is very helpful if you want to edit files en-masse.
Pro Good result overview with click-support to external editor
Cons
Con Cannot filter the log
BareGrep cannot filter out the irrelevant lines from the log (they are simply colored in a different color).
Con Website does not seem to exist any more
Con Hasn't been updated in a while
Windows Grep hasn't had a new stable release in a while. The released version has Windows 7 listed as the latest version of Windows supported.