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View 15 business solutionsBrowse free open source Search software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Search software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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DocFetcher
Desktop search application
DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. -
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Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.
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ripgrep
Regex pattern directory search tool that respects your .gitignore
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that actively searches the directory you're currently in for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will ignore your .gitignore and skip hidden files or directories and binary files automatically. ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release. ripgrep is similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep. ripgrep supports arbitrary input preprocessing filters which could be PDF text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting, automatic encoding detection and so on. In other words, use ripgrep if you like speed, filtering by default, fewer bugs and Unicode support. -
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Katalog
Catalog and Search files from permanent or removable drives
Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices, - Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences - Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics, - Backup or Archive files between catalogs - Collection data is stored in csv files or an SQLite base - Available in multiple languages - OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS). First use / tips - Simply start with the Create screen. Create your first catalog and experiment! - All data/catalog files are stored in the Settings/Collection folder. Documentation/Wiki: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/ Follow Katalog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 Follow active development: https://github.com/users/StephaneCouturier/projects/7 -
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CLucene is a C++ port of Lucene: the high-performance, full-featured text search engine written in Java. CLucene is faster than lucene as it is written in C++.
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FSearch
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
FSearch is a blazing-fast file search utility for Linux inspired by Windows’ Everything Search Engine, built to allow users to locate files and directories instantly by name rather than content. It achieves its high performance by indexing the filesystem and updating that index in real time, so as you create, rename, or delete files the results stay up to date without noticeable lag. The intuitive user interface supports incremental search — where results filter as you type — plus features like regular expressions, case-sensitivity options, and customizable indexing scopes, making it both powerful and accessible. Designed with GTK and written in C, it integrates nicely with desktop environments like GNOME, XFCE, and Cinnamon while still being lightweight and resource-efficient. Developers and power users appreciate FSearch for dramatically reducing the time it takes to find files compared to traditional search tools, especially on large partitions. -
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dirsearch
Web path scanner
An advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers, AKA web path scanner. Wordlist is a text file, each line is a path. About extensions, unlike other tools, dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with extensions from -e flag. For wordlists without %EXT% (like SecLists), -f | --force-extensions switch is required to append extensions to every word in wordlist, as well as the /. To use multiple wordlists, you can separate your wordlists with commas. Example: wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt. Default values for dirsearch flags can be edited in the configuration file: default.conf. The thread number (-t | --threads) reflects the number of separated brute force processes. And so the bigger the thread number is, the faster dirsearch runs. By default, the number of threads is 30, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress. -
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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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fzf
A command-line fuzzy finder
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. It's an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc. fzf will launch an interactive finder, read the list from STDIN, and write the selected item to STDOUT. Without STDIN pipe, fzf will use find command to fetch the list of files excluding hidden ones. (You can override the default command with FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND). fzf by default starts in fullscreen mode, but you can make it start below the cursor with the height option. Unless otherwise specified, fzf starts in "extended-search mode" where you can type in multiple search terms delimited by spaces. Fuzzy completion for files and directories can be triggered if the word before the cursor ends with the trigger sequence, which is by default **. Fuzzy completion for PIDs is provided for the kill command. In this case, there is no trigger sequence. -
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Fuse.js
Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript
Fuse.js is a powerful, lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies. Generally speaking, fuzzy searching (more formally known as approximate string matching) is the technique of finding strings that are approximately equal to a given pattern (rather than exactly). It might not make sense for every situation, but can be ideal depending on your search requirements. For example, qhen you want client-side fuzzy searching of small to moderately large data sets. Also, when you can't justify setting up a dedicated backend simply to handle search. ElasticSearch or Algolia, although both great services, may be overkill for your particular use cases. You can access all options above via Fuse.config. This is useful if you want to override default options for all Fuse instances. Fuse.js supports logical query operators. These operators are used for filtering the data and getting precise results based on the given conditions. -
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Meilisearch
An open-source, lightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine
An open-source, lightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow. Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that can be added to any website or application. Search-as-you-type returns answers in less than 50 milliseconds. That's faster than the blink of an eye! Deploy in a matter of minutes. Smart presets let you start searching through your data with zero configuration. Send data to Meilisearch however you want, no need to match a schema or convert your dataset to a compatible format. Everyone makes mistakes! If typos break your search experience, many users will leave thinking what they were looking for just wasn't there. Start searching through your dataset in less than 5 minutes and quickly connect your codebase to Meilisearch with our official libraries. Meilisearch is designed to work out-of-the-box, no configuration needed. -
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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.
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truffleHog
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets
truffleHog searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history. TruffleHog runs behind the scenes to scan your environment for secrets like private keys and credentials, so you can protect your data before a breach occurs. Secrets can be found anywhere, so TruffleHog scans more than just code repositories, including SaaS and internally hosted software. With support for custom integrations and new integrations added all the time, you can secure your secrets across your entire environment. TruffleHog is developed by a team entirely comprised of career security experts. Security is our passion and primary concern, and all features are developed with best practices in mind. TruffleHog enables you to track and manage secrets within our intuitive management interface, including links to exactly where secrets have been found. TruffleHog runs quietly in the background, continuously scanning your environment for secrets. -
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Elasticsearch
A Distributed RESTful Search Engine
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that lets you store, search and analyze with ease at scale. It lets you perform and combine many types of searches; it scales seamlessly, and offers answers incredibly fast with search results you can rank based on a variety of factors. Elasticsearch can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from maps and metrics to site search and workplace search, and with all data types. -
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fd is a program to find entries in your filesytem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases. First, to get an overview of all available command line options, you can either run fd -h for a concise help message or fd --help for a more detailed version. fd is designed to find entries in your filesystem. The most basic search you can perform is to run fd with a single argument: the search pattern. Instead of just showing the search results, you often want to do something with them. fd provides two ways to execute external commands for each of your search results: the -x/--exec option runs an external command for each of the search results (in parallel), or the -X/--exec-batch option launches the external command once, with all search results as arguments. -
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Apache Lucene
Apache Lucene open-source search software
The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a Python binding for Lucene. Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. The PyLucene sub-project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus-based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high-quality software that leads the way in its field. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache PyLucene, Apache Open Relevance Project and their respective logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. -
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Cerebro
Open-source productivity booster with a brain
Cerebro is an open source electron-based productivity software that lets you search and see everything you need on your PC in one place. With just a few clicks you can search on your machine or on the internet everything you need; see everything you need without having to open another application; and easily find and use what you want. -
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A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.
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OpenSearchServer Search Engine
An open source search engine with RESTFul API and crawlers
OpenSearchServer is a powerful, enterprise-class, search engine program. Using the web user interface, the crawlers (web, file, database, etc.) and the client libraries (REST/API , Ruby, Rails, Node.js, PHP, Perl) you will be able to integrate quickly and easily advanced full-text search capabilities in your application: Full-text with basic semantic, join queries, boolean queries, facet and filter, document (PDF, Office, etc.) indexation, web scrapping,etc. OpenSearchServer runs on Windows and Linux/Unix/BSD. -
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An advanced Java file/class finder with support for searching inside zip|war|ear|jar archives or finding text inside pdf|doc|ppt|UTF-8 files.
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Empty Directories Finder
Find, select, delete empty folders. Use the ignore list and others.
Empty Directories Finder expires empty directories and allows you to conveniently select the required directories before deleting. New version available. Improved user interface. -
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phpMorphy is morphological analyzer library written in pure PHP. Currently supports Russian, English and German languages.
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PdfgrepGui
This is a simple GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep
THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED TO: https://sourceforge.net/projects/documentgrep/ 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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TextSeek
Professional full-text desktop search tool
TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool. Unlike the filename search tool like Everything and Listary, TextSeek can search filename and file content easily and quickly. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats. The software can run directly, and no extra package is required to install. -
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