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  1. Windows Grep has support for search-and-replace text. This is very helpful if you want to edit files en-masse.
  2. 20 hours ago  grep is a powerful command-line tool that is used to search one or more input files for lines that match a regular expression and writes each matching line to standard output. In this article, we’re going to show you how to exclude one or multiple words, patterns, or directories when searching with grep.
  3. The most reliable tool in most straight forward cases would be grep but in more complex scenarios we can use sed, awk, gawk etc. You have the flexibility to perform match using case in-sensitive, recursive, excluding and many other scenarios using these tools.

Mar 12, 2021 ack is a grep-like source code search tool. The latest version of ack is v3.5.0, released 2021-03-12. Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.

The grep command in Linux is widely used for parsing files and searching for useful data in the outputs of different commands.

The findstr command is a Windows grep equivalent in a Windows command-line prompt (CMD).

In a Windows PowerShell the alternative for grep is the Select-String command.

Below you will find some examples of how to “grep” in Windows using these alternatives.

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Grep Command in Windows

Grep the output of a netstat command for a specific port:

If a command in PowerShell returns some objects, before parsing, they should be converted to strings using the Out-String -Stream command:

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Grep a file for a pattern that matches a regular expression (case insensitive):

Display help for the Windows grep command equivalents:

Sometimes you need to find a text file and you do not know the name of the file, but you know some of its contents. Before now, the only option you had was to open files one by one and manually search for what you wanted. Now, you don't have to do this.
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.
You can make various adjustments to ensure you find the file that you want, such as the use of regular expressions or identical terms, the ability to search multiple directories, or eliminate files by extension, among other options.
All this makes Windows Grep a utility that is really worth trying.