Topic Title: BareGrep

Languages: En
Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven
License: Freeware
Author's description:
A free file finding and text searching tool

Regular expression text search
- High-performance search algorithm
- Regex syntax is a common subset of Perl, PHP and Java (see the Regex Reference).
- Simple search mode for literal strings, when not using regexes

Wildcard and regular expression file search
- Files to find or search can be specified as a list including wildcards
- Files to find or search can be specified with a regular expression
- Multiple files can also be specified with the mouse

Recursive directory search
- Find and search matching files anywhere on the file-system

Save, name and manage text search patterns
- Frequently used text search patterns may be saved, named and edited

Interactive, incremental search
- Searching while you type, to find results quicker
- Feedback on regex syntax errors while you type, to build regexes quicker

Extract data with capturing groups
- Capturing groups (using bracket characters '(' and ')' in a regex) extract strings from files (see the Regex Reference).

Tabular presentation of search results
- Columns include the filename, line number, text of the line, and results of capturing groups
- Columns can be sorted

Export/copy of search results in many formats
- Export search results to a file or the clipboard
- Configurable selection of search result columns
- Configurable prefix, suffix, alignment and truncation

Search files of any size (> 2GB)

Many file formats
- Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)
- Unix text files (lines end in LF)
- Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls)

Flexible configuration options and storage
- Many configurable user preferences
- Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit
- Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)
- Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users

Single small executable, no installer
- No installation needed, start using the tool immediately
- Small executable can be run from the network
- Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove


Website : http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep
Download page: Same page as above, look for link to free version at the top (i.e. "Free Version - baregrep.exe (246k)")