Is there a Pattern Matching Utility like GREP in W

问题:

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

回答1:

There is a command-line tool called FINDSTR that comes with all Windows NT-class operating systems (type FINDSTR /? into a Command Prompt window for more information) It doesn't support everything grep does but it might be sufficient for your needs.

回答2:

PowerShell (included as standard on Windows 7/2008R2, optional for XP/2003/Vista/2008) which includes the select-string cmdlet for this purpose.

回答3:

Grep for Windows by GnuWin Project (2014-10-02: It's outdated, see comments below)

回答4:

as mentioned, findstr works fine. example :

C:>dir | findstr Windows

11/06/2013 09:55 PM Windows

回答5:

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)

回答6:

I also found one more way of utilizing GREP like functionality in Windows 7 and above without any extra application to install and on older systems you can use install Powershell.

In Powershell, User can use Where-Object it has quite comprehensive set of feature that provides all the functionality of GREP plus more.

Hope It helps.

回答7:

Cygwin grep and more ;)

回答8:

GnuWin32 is worth mentioning, it provides native Win32 version of all standard linux tools, including grep, file, sed, groff, indent, etc.

And it's constantly updated when new versions of these tools are released.

回答9:

On Windows I use Far Manager for file search. BSD licensed, works in console, saves time on typing cmdline parameters. Here is its search dialog invoked by Alt-F7.

回答10:

UnxUtils is a great set of Unix utilites that run on Windows. It has grep, sed, gawk, etc.

回答11:

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.

回答12:

Update: This wasn't true when the question was originally asked, but now Microsoft lets one Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and Windows will then run grep. In PowerShell, run:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

回答13:

In the windows reskit there is a utility called "qgrep". You may have it on your box already. ;-) It also comes with the "tail" command, thank god!

回答14:

Although not technically grep nor command line, both Microsoft Visual Studio and Notepad++ have a very good Find in Files feature with full regular expression support. I find myself using them frequently even though I also have the CygWin version of grep available on the command line.

回答15:

I'll add my $0.02 to this thread. dnGREP is a great open source grep tool for windows that supports undo, windows explorer integration, search inside PDFs, zips, DOCs and bunch of other stuff...

回答16:

Yes there is only one program for Windows PC which have solid GUI and it is essential util for me. I work as a developer and on every computer I've had, first thing install XFind program. It is created in 1997 and till now version is 1.0 and till now works and it is the best. Frequently I need to search some string in a ".cs", ".aspx", ".sct" (Visual FoxPro form code file) or just ".*" and XFind scans all files and show me files and another great thing is that you can look where string is in the file. XFind has also some kind of editor. If it binary file it will show you string finded. Try it and use it forever if you are developer like me.

回答17:

You have obviously gotten a lot of different recommendations.
My personal choice for a Free, 3rd Party Utility is: Agent Ransack
Agent Ransack Download
Despite its somewhat confusing name, it works well and can be used in a variety of ways to find files.

Good Luck

回答18:

If you install either Cygwin or Mingw, then yes.

Otherwise, not as far as I know.

回答19:

Bare Grep is nice if you want a GUI. Gnu grep is good for CLI

回答20:

If you don't mind a paid-for product, PowerGREP is my personal favorite.

回答21:

We have recently used PowerGREP for some fairly advanced bulk operations on thousands of files. Including regex searching in content of PDF files, and altering PDF documents in largescale.

Its worth the money if you want to save time from manuel labour. You can try it before you buy i think.

回答22:

If you have to use bare Windows, then in addition to the Powershell option noted above, you can use VBScript, which has decent RegEx support.

MS also has a decent scripting area on Technet with a ton of examples for administrators.

回答23:

Just try LikeGrep java utility. It may help you in very many cases. As you wish, it can also replace some text, found in files. It garantees its work on large files (up-to 8 Gb tested)

回答24:

As mentioned above, the gnuwin32 project has a Windows CLI version of grep.

If you want something with a graphical interface, I would recommend the (open-source) tool AstroGrep.

回答25:

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.

回答26:

There's a commercial grep utility available from Oak Road Systems.

回答27:

I recommend PowerGrep

I had to do an e-discovery project several years ago. I found that fisdstr had some limitations, most especially fisdstr would eventually fail

the script had to search across thousands of files using a couple of dozen search terms/phrases.

Cygwin's grep worked much better, it didn't choke often, but ultimately I went to PowerGrep because the graphical interface made it much easier to tell when and where it crashed, and also it was really easy to edit in all the conditionals and output that I wanted. Ultimately PowerGrep was the most reliable of the three.

回答28:

the all-in-one busybox contains grep / egrep / sed / awk and MANY more

get it from:

• http://frippery.org/busybox/index.html
• http://frippery.org/files/busybox/?C=M;O=D

or some older

• https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32

回答29:

I know that it's a bit old topic but, here is another thing you can do. I work on a developer VM with no internet access and quite limited free disk space, so I made use of the java installed on it.

Compile small java program that prints regex matches to the console. Put the jar somewhere on your system, create a batch to execute it and add the folder to your PATH variable:

JGrep.java:

package com.jgrep;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class JGrep {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        int printGroup = -1;
        if (args.length < 2) {
            System.out.println("Invalid arguments. Usage:");
            System.out.println("jgrep [...-MODIFIERS] [PATTERN] [FILENAME]");
            System.out.println("Available modifiers:");
            System.out.println(" -printGroup            - will print the given group only instead of the whole match. Eg: -printGroup=1");
            System.out.println("Current arguments:");
            for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
                System.out.println("args[" + i + "]=" + args[i]);
            }
            return;
        }
        Pattern pattern = null;
        String filename = args[args.length - 1];
        String patternArg = args[args.length - 2];        
        pattern = Pattern.compile(patternArg);

        int argCount = 2;
        while (args.length - argCount - 1 >= 0) {
            String arg = args[args.length - argCount - 1];
            argCount++;
            if (arg.startsWith("-printGroup=")) {
                printGroup = Integer.parseInt(arg.substring("-printGroup=".length()));
            }
        }
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename))) {
            sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = br.readLine();

            while (line != null) {
                sb.append(line);
                sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
                line = br.readLine();
            }
        }
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(sb.toString());
        int matchesCount = 0;
        while (matcher.find()) {
            if (printGroup > 0) {
                System.out.println(matcher.group(printGroup));
            } else {
                System.out.println(matcher.group());
            }
            matchesCount++;
        }
        System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
        System.out.println("File: " + filename);
        System.out.println("Pattern: " + pattern.pattern());
        System.out.println("PrintGroup: " + printGroup);
        System.out.println("Matches: " + matchesCount);
    }
}

c:\jgrep\jgrep.bat (together with jgrep.jar):

@echo off
java -cp c:\jgrep\jgrep.jar com.jgrep.JGrep %*

and add c:\jgrep in the end of the PATH environment variable.

Now simply call jgrep "expression" file.txt from anywhere.

I needed to print some specific groups from my expression so I added a modifier and call it like jgrep -printGroup=1 "expression" file.txt.