Free Grep and Tail tools for Windows
UNIX users, particularly those who work with a large number of text files (HTML, PHP, Perl, etc.) have long enjoyed the ability to do a search across many files for a string of text and replace it with another using a single "grep" command. BareGrep is a clean, basic implementation of Grep for Windows.
The developer, Bare Metal Software, also offers a Windows version of the UNIX tail function called BareTail which allows you to watch the end of a growing text file (I use to watch web logs, for example, when I'm debugging an error message).
If you work with a lot of code and text, these tools are definitely worth trying.
Bare Metal Software - BareGrep - Free Grep for Windows
BareGrep is a tool for searching files. BareGrep works with both plain text files (including Windows/DOS and Unix formats) and binary files. It is possible to match both text strings and strings of binary data.
BareGrep is similar to the Unix grep tool in that it allows the search strings to be specified with a regular expression (regex). However BareGrep has a visual, windowed interface, which allows for features not available in command-line file-searching tools like Unix grep. For example, BareGrep provides a tabular presentation of the search results allowing easy navigation.
You can sort the search results on filename, line number, or the text of the line matched. You can also easily resize and re-order the columns in the BareGrep output.
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