What are good grep tools for Windows? - Stack Overflow
Sep 18, 2008 · @Wells and upvoters: What's the beef? Several other GREP tools for Windows are just as free as for unix/linux. Indeed, this is what I love about the Windows ecosystem -- lots of free, if that's your main criterion, AND the ecosystem often supports paying developers for exploring extended amounts of functionality, such as with PowerGRE
windows - RegEx in awk and WinGrep - Stack Overflow
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Is there a Pattern Matching Utility like GREP in Windows?
Sep 12, 2009 · @gonzobrains: It's just not that well documented. As far as I can tell, it's always been available from the Windows NT command prompt-- certainly, it was available in Windows NT 4 but I don't know about Windows 3.5x.
regex - Find Files with 0x00 content - Stack Overflow
Aug 9, 2021 · I've tried wingrep with \x00{100} that works, but searches the whole file and counts how often pattern will match and that will take too much time. So I've written a short C++ program, that will do this job by only reading the first 100 bytes, but I'm interested how I can use regex to tell that it should only check the first match, and then ...
Grep tools that search multiple strings inside multiple files
Jul 10, 2012 · I have tried dnGrep, WinGrep, PowerGrep, and BareGrep, but none of these seem to provide this feature. For those of you that grep stored procedures, I am sure that you understand my pain. I am trying to search for cases where a couple tables that share the same generic column name exist in stored procedures and with aliasing table names this ...
windows - Free alternative(s) to PowerGREP - Stack Overflow
Jul 6, 2009 · WinGrep seems to be free though and, yet comes with quite a punch. 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.
Windows Grep: How do I Search for a file that contains 3 different ...
Jan 11, 2014 · Yes, but the findstr is not sending the matching lines over the pipe. Only the file names. So, second findstr retrieves the list on files (those that contains string1) in where to search for string2.
regex - grep replacement with extensive regular expression ...
Feb 5, 2010 · I have been using grepWin for general searching of files, and wingrep when I want to do replacements or what-have-you. GrepWin has an extensive implementation of regular expressions, however doesn't do replacements (as mentioned above). Wingrep does replacements, however has a severely limited range of regular expression implementation.
Repeats the previous item between n and m times in wingrep
May 5, 2012 · Nothing in the wingrep documentation indicates that they support this kind of interval expression. You might be simply unable to do it. Some regex engines that do support those expressions require the curly braces to be escaped, so you can try this: [A-Za-z0-9]\{1,5\}cd77. But if that doesn't work then I suspect you are out of luck.
Free program to grep unicode text files in Windows?
I have a collection of unicode text files (exported from regedit) and I'd like to pull out all the lines with a certain text on them. I've tried Grep for Windows and findstr but both can't seem to