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There is a command-line tool called FINDSTR that comes with all Windows NT-class operating systems (type FINDSTR /? into a Command Prompt window for more information) It doesn't support everything grep does but it might be sufficient for your needs.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned FINDSTR. I'm no grep poweruser, but findstr does what I need it to, filter files and stdin, with some primitive regex support. Ships with Windows and all that. (Edit: Well someone did mention findstr, It's late I guess)

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Although not technically grep nor command line, both Microsoft Visual Studio and Notepad++ have a very good Find in Files feature with full regular expression support. I find myself using them frequently even though I also have the CygWin version of grep available on the command line.

It has been a while since I've used them, but Borland (Embarcadero now) included a command line grep with their C/C++ compiler. For some time, they have made available their 5.5 version as a free download after registering.

Cygwin's grep worked much better, it didn't choke often, but ultimately I went to PowerGrep because the graphical interface made it much easier to tell when and where it crashed, and also it was really easy to edit in all the conditionals and output that I wanted. Ultimately PowerGrep was the most reliable of the three.

I wrote a Windows alternative to grep using Hybrid Batch/JScript code. I wrote this because getting the escape characters right in the GNU Win32 grep port was a real pain. This version works much more like how you would want the GNU version to work in Windows:

PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc. Find the information you want with powerful text patterns (regular expressions) specifying the form of what you want, instead of literal text. Search and replace with one or many regular expressions to comprehensively maintain web sites, source code, reports, etc. Extract statistics and knowledge from logs files and large data sets.

OP: There are several windows ports of the standard *NIX tools. Try UnxUtils | Download UnxUtils software for free at SourceForge.net which is freely available and includes Microsoft C-Library native versions of sed, gawk etc. they can be used directly from CMD.EXE.

So far, you have seen that the findstr command works excellently in finding strings, but the Select-String cmdlet is not to be left out. This cmdlet is a grep equivalent in Windows that lets you search for specific text patterns in files and strings.

Throughout this tutorial, you have learned many grep equivalents in Windows to search strings as literal and by using regexes. You have unlocked the power of these grep equivalents with a range of options and parameters to customize the search and filter for specific file types.

The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows. In addition to searching, Windows Grep also performs global replacing in your files, with complete safety.

To install, simply download the file and run. By default it will install into your Program Files directory (usually c:\program files\windows grep) but you can install it anywhere. It doesn't copy any files into your Windows folder, but does use the registry to save settings.

AstroGrep is a Microsoft Windows grep utility. Grep is a UNIX command-line program which searches within files for keywords. AstroGrep supports regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recently used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

Aha, I see. the files I was referring to are .docx files. I tried reading the docx file in Git using cat, and I saw that this is unreadable. So it makes sense now. Are there any other files that grep can be used for to read through other than .txt?

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by Aldebaran (Curate) on Oct 23, 2016 at 07:58 UTCThx all for responses...they covered the gamut pretty well. I was unaware of this native use of msdos, and there is something to be said for going at a problem in its native environment. The recursive form was what I was looking for:

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by clueless newbie (Curate) on Oct 15, 2016 at 00:53 UTCSince you were looking for something equivalent to grep, perhaps you'd be interested in ack.[reply]Re^2: grep for windows

by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2016 at 06:34 UTCFew weeks ago I could not install ack 2, for the same purpose as OP, due to problem with Find::Next. Other details are there.[reply]Re^3: grep for windows

by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2016 at 07:15 UTC Few weeks ago I could not install ack 2, for the same purpose as OP, due to problem with Find::Next. Other details are there. When a test fails because it couldn't create a temp file in a non existent temp directory ... force install it [reply]Re^4: grep for windows

by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2016 at 08:39 UTCRe: grep for windows

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In linux, simple grep command would help, but on Windows there's no such thing, or at least I thought... After some googling I came up with AstroGrep and I think it's awesome, and it also comes with a GUI if you fancy that:

I did a quick search for 'windows explorer search markdown files' which led me to a Super User thread that said I'd have to install a Markdown Preview to do it. And the answers didn't sound promising:

In the above terminal window you can see a simple grep command for finding a string in any file in a folder, recursively. The flags -irn mean ignore case (-i), recurse subdirectories (-r), and print line numbers of matches (-n). Here's the whole command:

The Emacs commands rgrep, grep-findand find-grep-dired are all different interfaces forgrepping recursively into subdirectories. By default, they use thecommand find to determine which files to work on, and eitherrun grep directly from find, or use xargs to batchup files and reduce the number of invocations of grep.

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces. In case you're not familiar with regular expressions, we have a very short regular expression tutorial for you. For example, you can (and maybe you should) limit the search to certain file sizes, file types, etc. Since regular expressions can sometimes get complicated, grepWin allows you to add your most used expressions to a presets list. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of grepWin are included for maximum performance.

Have you ever needed to search through GBs of W3C log files for a specific string such as an application, user or site? If you're comfortable with the command line, you may have turned to grep or findstr, or perhaps you purchased a commercial application to search your logs such as PowerGrep.

The downside of grep/findstr/grepToolXYZ is they generate a new file that does not necessarily adhere to the format or structure of the original log file. The output is often stripped of all W3C log headers, and many tools even replace delimiting characters such as tabs with spaces. The end result is that you have a file containing your search result, but the file is incompatible with your log analysis application (such as WebSpy Vantage).

When it comes to string manipulations, Windows never could compete with UNIX, which offers powerful text management tools such as grep, cut, sort, diff, wc, head, and tail. The find command, which has existed since the DOS times, has very restricted capabilities: only four parameters can be used to configure the search (invert, ignore case, display line numbers, and display count of lines).

Go to the download page to download grepWin right now.Windows XP not supportedgrepWin requires Windows 7 SP1 or later. It won't work on Windows XP or Vista!grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces.In case you're not familiar with regular expressions, we have a very short regular expression tutorial for you.(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({})grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

For example, you can (and maybe you should) limit the search to certain file sizes, file types, etc.Since regular expressions can sometimes get complicated, grepWin allows you to add your most used expressions to a presets list.

When it comes to searching command-line output or files from the terminal, there's no utility more venerable than grep. In fact, the command is so widely used that programmers even use grep as a verb meaning "to search files and output." e24fc04721