[Tools] What are good grep tools for Windows?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87350/what-are-good-grep-tools-for-windows

(I'm still a fan of PowerGREP, but I don't use it anymore.)

I know you already mentioned it, but PowerGREP is awesome.

Some of my favorite features are:

• Right-click on a folder to run PowerGREP on it
• Use regular expressions or literal text
• Specify wildcards for files to include & exclude
• Search & replace
• Preview mode is nice because you can make sure you're replacing what you intend to.

Now I realize that the other grep tools can do all of the above. It's just that PowerGREP packages all of the functionality into a very easy-to-use GUI.

From the same wonderful folks who brought you RegexBuddy and who I have no affiliation with beyond loving their stuff. (It should be noted that RegexBuddy includes a basic version of grep (for Windows) itself and it costs a lot less than PowerGREP.)

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Additional solutions

Existing Windows commands

• FINDSTR
• Select-String in PowerShell

Linux command implementations on Windows

• Cygwin
• Cash

Grep tools with a graphical interface

• AstroGrep
• BareGrep
• GrepWin

Additional Grep tools

• dnGrep

[AstroGrep]