Free alternative(s) to PowerGREP

Question

First of all, great praise goes out to PowerGREP it's a great program.

But it's not free. Some of it's options I'm looking for: Being able to use .NET regexp's (or similar) to find things in a filtered list of files through subdirectories.

Replacing that stuff with other regexps.

Being able to jump to that part of the file in some sort of editor.

Non commandline.

Being able to copy the results / filename and occurrences of the text.

Low overhead would also be nice so not too many dependencies etc.

And I need it on windows.

Answer 1

I do not know Powergrep but grepwin lets you search regexes in directories.

http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin

Answer 2

I use GrepWin extensively during development and on production servers - it doesn't support all the features you specify but it gets the job done. (YMMV)

Answer 3

Get Cygwin for a bunch of free alternatives!
grep, sed, awk, perl, python... goes on.
But, oops! you want to stick to GUI.

I always wonder at how people wrap GUI around things like grep and get cash for that!

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WinGrep seems to be free though and, yet comes with quite a punch.

Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables.

Answer 4

you can get GNU grep or Gawk