Unicode grep for Windows [closed]
Is there a Unicode-aware grep for Windows 32-bit?
For a command line tool, look at KeyboardMonkey answer (but I'm not sure about Unicode support).
For an (open source) GUI tool: dnGREP
- Shell integration (ability to search from Windows Explorer)
- Plain text, regular expression, and XPath search (including case-insensitive search)
- Phonetic search (using Bitap and Needleman-Wunch algorithms)
- File move/copy/delete actions
- Search inside archives / MS Word documents / PDF documents (via plug-ins)
- Undo functionality
- Optional integration with text editor (like Notepad++)
- Bookmarks (ability to save regular expression searches for the future)
- Pattern test form
- Search result highlighting
- Does not require installation (can be run from a USB drive)
For a more simple (only search) GUI tool: AstroGrep and for a more featured (and expensive) one: PowerGREP
Most versions of Windows include the command "findstr" which works much like grep. I do not know about its Unicode abilities, but to my knowledge there shouldn't be any problems with that.
Update: GnuWin32 is a more recently maintained port of these tools. (Thanks Quack)
Here is a list of the packages and to download grep individually.
Have a look at UnxUtils, which includes grep as well. I use these on my work PC, too.