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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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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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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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RED searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder and shows the result in a well arranged tree. Further you can create some custom rules for keeping and deleting folders. Empty files in directories can also be ignored.
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grepwin
A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions
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. Note: project has moved to GitHub https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin -
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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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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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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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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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TLPD is designed to tackle the 'path name too long' issue. It scans the directory tree, searching for files and folders with full path name that may be too long for Windows to handle. TLPD is portable, has silent mode. ReadMe and source are available.
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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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Searcher
Search utility for files
This utility is intended to help in search or grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types. For help/usage, see the wiki page: https://sourceforge.net/p/searcher/wiki/Home/ -
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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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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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Locate32
Locate32 finds files and directories based on file names.
Locate32 finds files and directories based on file and folder names stored in a database. Locate32 saves to a database the names of all files on your hard drives. Once the file indexing has occurred, you can locate files quickly by using the application's search form. It works like "updatedb" and "locate" commands in Unix. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog-based application as well as console programs that can be used to update and access the databases. Locate32 is not primarily meant to find text or data within files, but it has a primitive feature to do this. -
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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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Katalog
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files.
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices - Search and explore files even when the devices are disconnected - Organize and backup your collection of files, and get statistics User documentation: - Get started/Tutorial: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/tutorial - Download (Linux Flathub): https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.stephanecouturier.Katalog - Documentation: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Overview - Development: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Development-Overview - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 -
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SystemTrayMenu
SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily
SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email. -
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TNTSearch
A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
TNTSearch is a full-text search engine written in PHP, designed to be integrated into Laravel and other PHP applications. It offers real-time, efficient indexing and searching of textual data using SQLite as its storage backend. TNTSearch is highly configurable and supports features like fuzzy searching, customizable ranking algorithms, and boolean search, making it a powerful tool for adding search functionality to websites and applications. -
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magnetW
Magnet link aggregation search
magnetW is based on the rule principle of magnetX , the search results of each magnetic station are uniformly formatted. There is no group in this project, only Github for code hosting and related technical exchanges, and other addresses may be risky, please distinguish carefully. This project is open source and free. There are no collection channels of any kind, such as donations, and no advertising of any kind. If you encounter anything similar to the above situation, please don't believe such advertisements. This application is open source and free, and is only used for crawler technology exchange and learning. The search results are all from the source site, and no responsibility is assumed. The project complies with GNU General Public License v3.0. Online playback is performed in conjunction with the webtorrent desktop version. It needs to be downloaded separately. After clicking the online play, it will jump to webtorrent to add tasks. -
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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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ATSCAN SCANNER
Advanced dork Search & Mass Exploit Scanner
Advanced Mass Search / Dork / Exploitation Scanner. -
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AnySearch Skill
Unified real-time search engine skill for AI agents
AnySearch Skill is a real-time search engine skill for AI agents. It gives agents a structured way to search the web, run vertical searches, perform parallel batch searches, and extract full-page content. The project is packaged as a skill rather than a standalone search application, so it is meant to be installed into compatible AI-agent environments. It supports multiple domain-specific search categories, making it useful when general web search is too broad. The skill can also fetch page content after a URL is found, which helps agents answer questions from source material rather than snippets alone. Its main value is turning web search into a reusable, agent-friendly capability with consistent inputs and outputs. -
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Career-Ops
AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code
Career Ops is an open-source platform designed to help individuals manage their job search process with a structured, operations-style approach that treats career development like a pipeline. It provides a system for organizing job applications, tracking progress across different stages, and maintaining visibility into opportunities, much like a lightweight CRM tailored for job seekers. The project emphasizes clarity and accountability, enabling users to monitor applications, follow-ups, and outcomes in a centralized environment. It is typically built with modern web technologies, allowing for easy customization and self-hosting by developers who want full control over their data. Career Ops focuses on reducing the chaos and fragmentation that often comes with job searching by introducing a repeatable workflow that can be iterated and improved over time. It also supports the idea of data-driven job searching.
