ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for
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Tag: grep
demongrep – fast, local semantic code search
Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.
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ferp – grep clone
ferp aims to be a clone of grep, but written in modern Fortran.
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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.
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hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output
hgrep is a grep tool to search files with a given pattern and print the matched code snippets with human-friendly syntax highlighting.
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mgrep – semantically grep everything
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
osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.
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grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids
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
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
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
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
Clapgrep is a GUI utility which lets you search through your files.
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ruplacer – find and replace text in source 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.
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skim – fuzzy finder
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
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
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
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
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
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
UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.
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