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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,033 This Week
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    Swiss File Knife

    Swiss File Knife

    One hundred command line tools in a small and portable binary.

    Create zip files, extract zip files, replace text in files, search in files using expressions, stream text editor, instant command line ftp and http server, send folder via network, copy folder excluding sub folders and files, find duplicate files, run a command on all files of a folder, split and join large files, make md5 checksum lists of files, remove tab characters, convert CR/LF, list newest or biggest files of a folder, compare folders, treesize, show first or last lines of a file, find filenames fast using index files, rename many files using expressions, copy part of a file, change times of a file, set file time from filename, print colored text to terminal, convert csv to tab separated, download files from web, send http or udp requests, print tcp or udp traffic, create hexdump of files, join many text files into one, list nested .zip .tar .tar.gz .tar.bz2 archive contents. Fully portable, for USB stick, without installation. For Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.
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    Downloads: 376 This Week
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    Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames, auto CVS edit. Moved to https://github.com/lionello/fart-it
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    Downloads: 107 This Week
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    searchmonkey

    searchmonkey

    Powerful desktop search app for Windows, Linux and Mac

    Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.
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    Downloads: 45 This Week
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    FAR - Find And Replace
    Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features,applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular expressions to match against data payloads of packets. SUPPORT/REPORTING BUGS: please use https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep/issues Thank you!
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    grep for Windows

    grep for Windows

    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data

    grep (GNU grep) 3.5 Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Mike Haertel and others; see <https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
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    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    Common Resource Grep - crgrep

    Common Resource Grep - crgrep

    Common Resource Grep

    CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    PdfgrepGui

    PdfgrepGui

    This is a simple GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep

    This program is a GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep. Pdfgrep search text in multiple PDF files and grep can serach text in multiple text files. You can use regular expressions for the search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). This GUI and the command line tools work without indexing. The following options are used: -i (ignore case) and -F (fixed strings), -n (Print page number or output lines) and -H (Print the file name for each match) from the command line tool. The -r option will be done by the program itself. Performance: This GUI works well when searching in several hundreds of documents (depends on the speed of your computer and the length of the documents). Config Dir: [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui Available Languages: - English - German You can add your own language by editing the file [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui/language.set
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    vcparse

    vcparse

    A simplistic C++ VCF/VCARD parser

    This single-file project transcodes VCF/VCARD files into JSON for easy filtering with grep. VCARD support is incomplete but can be extended. This project was motivated from recovering contacts backed up from an Android phone in a human-readable yet machine-friendly format.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to grep.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Sgrep (sorted grep) is a much faster alternative to traditional Unix grep when searching large files, because sgrep searches sorted input files using a fast binary search to find matching lines.
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    blink code search

    blink code search

    GUI of indexed grep in Windows and Linux. Source code indexing tool.

    GUI of indexed grep in Windows and Linux. A source code indexing tool, near instant code search tool and navigation. Good for small to medium size code base. It supports fuzzy matching, auto complete, and live grep for real time query. Manage different projects and switch for different projects Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor. Source code and demo video in: https://github.com/ychclone/blink
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    The findstr is searching the words in the text and binary files in several codepages. The famouse 'grep' is very slow and get a lot memory for large binary files without ends of lines - findstr is fast and light, but it doesn't use regular expressions.
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    Scat is a powerful and useful tool to print out files content either as a raw text or hexdump (hexadecimal dump). It also has wide set of options to manipulate an output, which makes scat useful with cascade piping (like find | scat | grep) or debugging
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Grep tool for OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) files. Search content and meta streams for regular expressions.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Regex+
    Java regular expression matching
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ldif-extract

    Extrect selected entries from LDIF files like grep

    ldif-extract is a small 'grep' like tool to extract and convert data from LDIF files. It could be used standalone or also in a pipe together with other tools like ldapsearch.
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    mgrep - A Multiline grep Implementation

    mgrep - A Multiline grep Implementation

    mgrep is a command line tool that allows users to search text files for lines matching a given regular expression. It is similar to the well-known Unix utility, grep. As a natural extension to the single-line regular expressions, mgrep is also capable of searching for multiline patterns. mgrep is not a grep replacement, but it is intended to be grep-compatible: implemented options and behavior should be the same as those of grep. mgrep is written in C++ using the Boost.Regex library. A configure/make system is provided for Linux, but its source code should compile on all platforms that have the std and Boost.Regex libraries installed.
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    rtgrep is a bash script which searches for all files in the current directory or a given base directory which were created/modified within a given time period. The search can be recursive, and you can specify a pattern to be matched in the file contents
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    Supgrep: A GUI-frontend for grep (on Linux systems). Integrates searching and file viewing for faster text search involving multiple files.
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    unix_to_mac_os

    unix_to_mac_os

    Portable Collection of Unix Utilities to MAC OS X

    Portable Collection of Unix Utilities to MAC OS X : aria2 axel coreutils findutils fping grep gzip hexedit lftp mawk msmtp mutt ncftp ngrep nmap p7zip parallel pv rsync rtorrent sed tar unrar wdiff wget wput zsync Watch https://youtu.be/l5NlyoCoFCQ for usage instructions.
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    This utility will provide grep-like functionality to return multi-line (record) matches for blank-line deliminated files such as LDIF files used by LDAP. A match on any line will return all lines from the previous blank line until the following one.
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    A tool which allows you to download all erotic images and videos hosted on popular image hosting sites tagged with a given tag without clicking you through the web interface. ,,java bayimg yourtag'' is enought.
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    DBMail Utilities provides a set of tools to help manage or administrate dbmail. Tools include a database mail grep and others.
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