Sep 18, 2008 · Any recommendations on grep tools for Windows? Ideally ones that could leverage 64-bit OS. I'm aware of Cygwin, of course, and have also found PowerGREP, but I'm wondering if there are any hidden ...

Jul 6, 2009 · Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.

Sep 12, 2009 · Is there a similar utility to grep available from the Windows Command Prompt, or is there a third party tool for it?

Sep 12, 2009 · On windows, you will miss the great GNU/Linux/Unix tools like sed, awk, wget, grep, tr, locate, file, dd, diff, I wouldn't recommend cygwin though, I prefer native tools.

Sep 18, 2008 · I had been focusing on tools that don't use an intermediate format, but the idea of a high-fidelity, line-oriented representation of xml seems like a great way to keep using real grep and sed.

grep is used to search within a file to see if any line matches a given regular expression. However, I have this situation - I want to write a regular expression that will match the filename itself (and not the contents of the file). I will run this from the system's root directory, to find all those files that match the regular expression.

Jul 10, 2012 · I realize there seems to be many questions on this forum for searching multiple strings inside files, but I fail to find a solution to search multiple strings inside multiple files. Using the pipe

How do I grep and show the preceding and following 5 lines surrounding each matched line?

Feb 16, 2017 · In shells like Bash, Zsh and others, you can use shell syntax to pass an actual tab character to grep. The trick is to use $ sign before single quotes. Since this is a feature of the shell, it also works for cut and other tools. grep $'\t' sample.txt (If you're using this syntax in a shell script, you should use a #!/bin/bash shebang to explicitly …

Apr 29, 2022 · The cygwin package contains a dll - cygwin.dll and a bunch of Linux utilities compiled for windows, (e.g. cut.exe, grep.exe, etc) that can be used on the cmd prompt or in a batch file.