PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PDF files, etc. Find the information you want with powerful text patterns (regular expressions) specifying the form of what you want, instead of literal text.
Software License: Shareware
Operating Systems Support: Microsoft Windows
Download Link: PowerGREP 3.3.0
Homepage: PowerGREP
Version ChangeLog:
Action: Import File command on the right-click menu of all text boxes, to easily load the contents of a file as the search term. Useful for quickly loading delimited lists.
Archives: .jar (Java Archive), .ear (Java Enterprise Application Packaging unit) and .war (Java web archive) archives can now be searched through when the Search through Archives option in the File Selector menu is enabled. These archives are essentially .zip archives with an extra META-INF folder with files containing meta information about the files in the archive. PowerGREP treats these archives as .zip archives, without any special treatment for the META-INF folder.
Command line: /resultsoptions parameter for the options on the Results pane.
File Formats: Microsoft Office Open XML (*.docx) and XML Paper Specification files can now be searched (and replaced) through. DOCX and XPS files are essentially ZIP archives containing several XML files. PowerGREP cannot decode DOCX and XPS files, but lets you search through the raw XML. PowerGREP can also make replacements in DOCX and XPS files, though you'll have to be careful not to mess up the XML structure.
File Formats: OpenDocument Format files can now be searched (and replaced) through. ODF files are essentially ZIP archives containing several XML files. PowerGREP cannot decode ODF files, but lets you search through the raw XML. PowerGREP can also make replacements in ODF files, though you'll have to be careful not to mess up the XML structure.
Placeholders: Placeholders to insert section and match numbers and the section and match text.
Preferences, Action & Results: Default backup options. New actions will default to these backup settings. The Editor will always use these settings.
Preferences, Action and Results: Option to collapse files by default when showing matches grouped per file
Preferences, Editor: Option to make an editor the default editor for the file types it supports. Pressing Ctrl+E will then open the files in that editor instead of opening them in PowerGREP.
Results: Option to sort files by their last modification dates.
Sectioning: "line by line (include line breaks)" sectioning type that includes the line break after each line in the section. This sectioning mode makes it easy to delete matching lines by running a search-and-replace that replaces whole sections with nothing.
Undo History: The built-in editor now creates backup copies, and adds them to the undo history for easy undoing or cleanup.
