Home

Awesome

WinGrep

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/alexgelman/WinGrep

A simple Windows utility to search for strings in Windows files.

WinGrep Usage

WinGrep.exe --paths=(Paths to search) --search=(Exact string to search) [--maxsize=(Max file size in bytes to search in)]

  --help                Produce help message.
  --paths arg           Space separated paths to search in.
  --search arg          Exact string to search in files.
  --maxsize arg (=-1)   The maximum file size in bytes to search in. Enter -1 
                        to search all files.
  --unicode             Output in Unicode.
  --debug               Print debug information.

Dependencies

WinGrep depends on boost v1.59 program options and filesystem libraries. You'll have to download and compile it yourself.

Releases

v1.0

Version 1.0 of WinGrep can be found here.

License

WinGrep is released under the MIT license.