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Grep Tool For Windows

GREP is a traditional tool from the UNIX world for searching through many files using a regular expression. RegexBuddy has a convenient GREP tool built-in. Use it to search through a large number of files or folders. Combine this with RegexBuddy’s wide range of functionality to easily create regular expressions, and you will quickly find the information you are looking for. Or, edit many files at once by searching and replacing with regular expressions.

Grepping is also a good way to test your regular expression on large amounts of sample data. RegexBuddy greps in preview mode by default, making your tests completely safe, while still performing the entire grep operation (unlike most other grep tools).

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Windows Grep has support for search-and-replace text. This is very helpful if you want to edit files en-masse.
Windows Grep is a free search tool for Windows that allows you search the text of multiple files at the same time. Its interface, although simple, is very practical and, thanks to its assistant, it is really easy to perform searches.

RegexBuddy offers all the functionality you’d expect from a basic GREP tool. Built on the same technology as our top-of-the-line Windows GREP tool PowerGREP, RegexBuddy outclasses many stand-alone GREP tools. See detailed results on screen, or automatically save search matches to file. Work safely with a variety of preview, undo and backup options.

If you are looking for a simple GREP tool, RegexBuddy is all you need. For maximum power, create regular expressions with RegexBuddy, and use them with PowerGREP’s unparalleled searching and text processing functionality.

Easier to understand error messages

The error message ack displays when the regex passed is invalid has been improved. The message is more readable and includes a pointer to the offending part of the regex. For example:

New `--proximate` option groups matches near each other

A new option --proximate=N groups together lines of output that are within N lines of each other in the file. This is useful when looking for matches that are related to each other.

For example, these results:

look like this with --proximate=1.

Improved `-w` option

The -w option, which tells ack to only find whole-word matches, did not always work if your pattern began or ended with puncutation. ack would make guesses as to what your intent was, but it was not well-defined. Now, ack disallows regexes that begin or end with non-word characters.

This means that if you use ack -w foo:, the new ack will not allow it, whereas ack 2.x would.

Added `-S` as a synonym for `--smart-case`

For those without --smart-case always on, the -S will be easier for when you do want to use it.

Smart-case matching makes ack do a case-insensitive search unless the pattern being matched has a capital letter in it.

Added `-I` to force case-sensitivity

Grep Tool Windows

If you use --smart-case in your .ackrc, you can use -I to force case-sensitivity instead of having to use --no-smart-case (which still works).

Significant speed improvements

Run times for ack 3 compared to ack 2.22 are 30-40% faster because of removal of unused infrastructure for plugins.

New built-in filetypes

ack now supports SVG, Markdown and POD by default.

How to install

ack is simple to install, via CPAN, package or simple download. Read how.

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