Search
Text file search utility will quickly and easily find those files containing pieces of text. It allows boolean combination (AND/OR/AND NOT) and can show you the lines from the file that matched.
Search & Replace 98
SRHTML98, free graphical multiline text search and replace tool for Win32. From the Andromeda HTML Workshop.
Search and Replace for Windows 95/98/NT 3x
Shareware utility for search and replace in multiple files, directories and zip archives. Supports egrep style regular expressions. Script language for webmasters and programmers. From Funduc Software.
SearchWin
Searches for file names or file context in Windows using multiple search terms that can be related with And/Or/Not. Find files without using ancient DOS filename or wildcard parameters. Print search results or save search results to text or comma delimited file.
Sgrep
Structured grep is a tool for searching and indexing text, SGML, XML and HTML files and filtering text streams using structural criteria. Win32 binary and binaries for HP-UX, Linux, OSF1 and Solaris.
Simple Search/Replace Software
A free replacement for the Windows "containing text" option found in their search window. Search plain-ASCII text files, such as source code, HTML, RTF and batch files. However it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.
Wilbur
Indexes drives, files, CDs, and zip archives, accepts wildcards, OLE and command line integration, GPL for Win32 from RedTree Development.
Windows Grep
Graphical text search and replace tool for Win32, shareware.
Yahoo! Desktop Search
Indexes files on desktop machine and allows searching via software interface. Results not ranked by relevance, but it uses reductive queries that means the list of results narrows as you add additional keywords. [Windows]
ZipScan
Shareware archive search utility for Windows, that looks inside archive files. The program can search Zip, CAB, RAR and JAR files, including self-extracting archives.
Arstechnica.com
Review of five Windows desktop search programs, covering what is indexed, mechanism used for search, how search results are displayed (interface quality) and how they are ranked for relevancy (if at all). (April 4, 2005)
Advanced Data Finder
Personal search engine for finding data stored in HTML and text files and creating links collections.
Advanced Find and Replace
Search local documents with AltaVista-like queries and replace entire paragraphs. Win32 graphical shareware.
Agent Ransack
Freeware graphical file searching that supports regular expressions for Windows.
AGREP, an approximate GREP
Powerful tool for fast approximate fuzzy text searching files for strings, regular expressions. User-definable records. Open Source for OS/2, DOS, Win3.x and Win95/NT.
AGREP for VMS
A Unix "grep" program with approximate matching capabilities, ported to VMS by J.Lauret.
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search
Indexes contents of a desktop machine and allows searching via software interface. [Windows]
AstroGrep v2.0
Free Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility that supports regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature.
Ava Find
Find any file on the computer including mp3 files, programs on the Start Menu, in under a second.
Copernic Desktop Search
Indexes contents of a desktop machine and allows searching via a search box built into the taskbar. Results displayed in client window. [Windows]
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