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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings.

Clapgrep is a GUI utility which lets you search through your files.

ruplacer is a command-line tool to find and replace text in source files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

skim is a fuzzy finder. It can be used as a general filter (like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

pru lets you use Ruby in your pipes. Forget about grep / sed / awk / wc … It’s written in the Ruby programming language.

xlsxgrep is a CLI tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files. It works similarly to grep. Written in Python.

bingrep greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them. This is free and open source software written in Rust.