Free grep software for windows

V-Grep 1 is a program doing the job of offering regular expressions power to people who use the typical Windows. It is free. Regular expressions are using basic concept of the masks but they add even more special characters that can represent definite number of characters, optional phrases. You can specify expressions representing complex patterns that are difficult or impossible to find using only masks, such as e-mail addresses, telephone numbers.

An easy-to-use, simple and small Basic Grep utility with some useful features. KOL Grep is a small, simple and easy-to-use Basic Grep tool with some useful features.
Main features:
- Case insensitive match or Wild card match;
- Displays first match per file or all matches;
- Highlights matched text in display;
- Recurse subdirectories (optional).

Yo!Grep is a grep search tool, based on GExperts sources Yo!Grep is a grep search tool, based on GExperts sources.
It has a friendly interface so you can search and find with ease.

The GNU utility, compiled for Windows. This one has atwist you wont find anywhere else -- it lets you do wildcard searches through subdirectories.

The famous, super fast Gnu Grep 2.0 for Unix ported to Win32 (Both NT and Windows 95). Full Source Code included. Free under the Gnu GPL (General Public License) Agreement. GNU grep is based on fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about twice as fast as a stock Unix egrep).

SeaRCHZIPRar is the fastest drive level recursive across-folders files finder for ZIP and RAR archives. You can specify substring of filename(s) or filename extensions. Wild cards supported. You can do anything on the found files just while you search.
Main features:
- File(s) finder for ZIP or RAR archives with substring search and wild card support.
- DOS commandline utility to look inside ZIR or RAR archives.
- Supports the question mark ("?") and the asterisk("*") wild card characters. The question mark character also helps in looking for space-separated long filenames.
- Has special switch to find specified substring in initial part of filename(s).
- Users can go to the command prompt just while hopping from one archive to another or between the listing of pages of filenames from an archive.
- Each page-sized listing from an archive prompts the user to
- either proceed and list more
- or invoke COMMAND.COM and log to archives folder (EXITing from COMMAND.COM continues the search)
- or stop search and log to archives folder
- or log back to the starting working folder to let user invoke this program again with a new search specification.
- The last page-sized listing from an archive prompts the user to
- either proceed with the next archive
- or invoke COMMAND.COM and log to archives folder (EXITing from COMMAND.COM continues the search)
- or stop search and log to archives folder
- or log back to the starting working folder to let user invoke this program again with a new search specification.
- Prompts to look inside more archives even when searched file or substring has already been found.
- Lists matching filenames with path as stored in the archive as heading.
- Displays uncompressed size of files.
- Root name of archive files need not be known.
- Names of files in all ZIP or RAR archives located in all the directories (folders) on a floppy disk / Hard Disk drive / partition / CD can be sent to file for sophisticated search with GREP.COM later.
- Especially useful for those who keep a lot of files in compressed ZIP and/or RAR archives.
- Archives can be anywhere on a disk partition / CD.
- Particularly useful on large software distribution media like magazine cover CDs, shareware CDs, etc. which compulsorily have files in compressed format.
- Versatile.
- ZDNet 3-Star Rated (SeaRCHZIPRar v1.1).
- Unrestricted software.