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What an amazingly powerful little piece of software!
...
BareGrep is now at the top of my list of must-have utilities.
- Dzung, U.S.A.

Product Overview

A free file finding and text searching tool

• Regular expression text search
  

  • High-performance search algorithm

  • Regex syntax is a common subset of Perl, PHP and Java (see the Regex Reference).

  • Simple search mode for literal strings, when not using regexes

• Wildcard and regular expression file search

  • Files to find or search can be specified as a list including wildcards
    

  • Files to find or search can be specified with a regular expression
    

  • Multiple files can also be specified with the mouse
    

• Recursive directory search

  • Find and search matching files anywhere on the file-system
    
    

• Save, name and manage text search patterns

  • Frequently used text search patterns may be saved, named and edited
    

• Interactive, incremental search

  • Searching while you type, to find results quicker

  • Feedback on regex syntax errors while you type, to build regexes quicker

• Extract data with capturing groups
  
  

  • Capturing groups (using bracket characters '(' and ')' in a regex) extract strings from files (see the Regex Reference).

• Tabular presentation of search results
  

  • Columns include the filename, line number, text of the line, and results of capturing groups

  • Columns can be sorted

• Export/copy of search results in many formats
  
  

  • Export search results to a file or the clipboard

  • Configurable selection of search result columns

  • Configurable prefix, suffix, alignment and truncation

• Search files of any size (> 2GB)

• Many file formats

  • Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)

  • Unix text files (lines end in LF)

  • Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls)

• Flexible configuration options and storage
  

  • Many configurable user preferences

  • Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit

  • Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)

  • Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users

• Single small executable, no installer

  • No installation needed, start using the tool immediately

  • Small executable can be run from the network

  • Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove

What an amazingly powerful little piece of software!
...
BareGrep is now at the top of my list of must-have utilities.
- Dzung, U.S.A.

Product Overview
Command Line Use
Regex Reference
Export Reference
FAQ
User Comments