Universal grep
High-performance file search utility. Offers easy options and predefined regex patterns to quickly search source code, Unicode text, binary, tarballs (cpio, tar, and pax), and compressed files. A more capable, super fast, fully compatible drop-in replacement for GNU/BSD grep.
What people are saying about ugrep
"Impressive work! And thanks for an amazing writeup, again! This is already my go to search-tool, and it just keeps on getting better. Well done." -RuneBergh on GitHub
"Many thanks for your prompt help. And congratulations on an impressively-featured utility." -ISO8807 on GitHub
"ugrep is by far the fastest grep for searching compressed logs now. Impressive." -RuneBergh on GitHub
What is ugrep?
ugrep is fully compatible with the popular BSD and GNU grep utilities. But ugrep has much more to offer than these and other grep utilities:
| ugrep | GNU grep | BSD grep | |
| Open source license | BSD | GPL | BSD |
| Super fast parallel search with threads and mmap | yes | no | no |
| Unicode text search (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) | yes | no | no |
| Use predefined patterns to quickly search source code | yes | no | no |
| Search files by file types, e.g. scripts and source code | yes | no | no |
| Search files while ignoring files specified in .gitignore | yes | no | no |
| Search files stored in cpio, tar, pax, and zip archives | yes | no | no |
| Search compressed files (.gz, .Z, .zip, .bz, .bz2, .lzma, .xz) | yes | no | .gz |
| Search documents (pdf, doc, docx, etc.) using filters | yes | no | no |
| Search binary files and output hexdumps for matches | yes | no | no |
| Custom output options (CSV, JSON, XML) | yes | no | no |
| User-specified custom output formatting | yes | no | no |
| Search files by filename extensions and magic bytes | yes | no | no |
| Use gitignore-style globs to select files to search | yes | no | no |
| Match patterns across newlines | yes | no | no |
| Skip unwanted matches with negative patterns | yes | no | no |
| Match replacement with backreferences | yes | no | no |
| Supports encodings ISO-8859-1, CP850, EBCDIC, KOI8, etc. | yes | no | no |
User Guide and Download Instructions
To view the user guide and the ugrep download instructions, please visit ugrep at GitHub.
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