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mgrep – semantically grep everything

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mgrep is a calm, CLI-native way to semantically grep everything, like code, images, pdfs and more.

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osgrep – natural-language search that works like grep

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

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

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grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague.

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ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

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

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w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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Clapgrep – app to search through all your files

November 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

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

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ruplacer – find and replace text in source files

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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skim – fuzzy finder

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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pru – Pipeable Ruby

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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xlsxgrep – tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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bingrep – grep-like tool for binaries

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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rzgrep – greps through the contents of an archive file

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rzgrep greps through the contents of an archive file, it also greps through any archive files that are embedded within an archive file.

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ngrep – grep applied to the network layer

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ngrep is a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets.

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ucg – fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.

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vgrep – pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep implementations

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vgrep is a pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep tools. It allows opening the indexed file locations in a user-specified editor.

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phpgrep – syntax-aware grep for PHP code

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

phpgrep is both a library and a command-line tool. The library can be used to perform syntax-aware PHP code matching inside Go programs.

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ack – grep-like source code search tool

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ack is designed as an alternative to grep for programmers. It is highly portable and runs on any platform that runs Perl.

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The Silver Searcher – code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Silver Searcher is a tool for searching code. It started off as a clone of Ack, but their feature sets have since diverged slightly.

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