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When comparing TextCrawler vs GrepWin, the Slant community recommends GrepWin for most people. In the question“What are the best grep implementations for Windows?” GrepWin is ranked 4th while TextCrawler is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose GrepWin is:
GrepWin is completely free and open source. It's released under GPL.
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PlatformsWindows
TechnologyC++
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Pro Free and open source
GrepWin is completely free and open source. It's released under GPL.
Pro RegEx support
Pro Portable Version
A portable version without installation is available.
Pro Can search hidden directories/files
GrepWin can also search for hidden directories or files with no problem.
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Con Can only search .txt files
Con 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.