Is there a Pattern Matching Utility like GREP in Windows?

Question

Is there a similar utility to grep available from the Windows Command Prompt, or is there a third party tool for it?

Answer 1

as mentioned, findstr works fine. example :

C:>dir | findstr Windows

11/06/2013 09:55 PM Windows

Answer 2

An excellent and very fast file search utility, Agent Ransack, supports regular expression searching. It's primarily a GUI utility, but a command-line interface is also available.

Answer 3

I'm surprised no one has mentioned FINDSTR. I'm no grep poweruser, but findstr does what I need it to, filter files and stdin, with some primitive regex support. Ships with Windows and all that. (Edit: Well someone did mention findstr, It's late I guess)

Answer 4

Use Cygwin...

it has 32 and 64 bits versions
and it works fine from Windows 2000 (*)
to Windows 10 or Server 2019

I use Cygwin for a long time...
and recently tryed to substitute with Windows-Linux-Subsystems...

not for long...
I quickly went back to Cygwin again...

much more flexible, controlable and rich...
also less intrusive...

just add \bin to the path...
and you can use it anyware in Windows/Batch/Powershell...
or in a DOS-Box... or in a Powershell-Box...

Also you can install a ton of great packages
that really work... like nginX or PHP... I even use the Cygwin PHP package in my IIS...

As a bonus wou can also use it from a bash shell...
(I think this was the original intent ;-))

Answer 5

Cygwin grep and more ;)

Answer 6

It has been a while since I've used them, but Borland (Embarcadero now) included a command line grep with their C/C++ compiler. For some time, they have made available their 5.5 version as a free download after registering.