Universal grep
Ultra fast searcher of file systems, text and binary files, source code, archives (cpio/tar/pax/zip), compressed files (zip/gz/Z/bz2/lzma/xz), and more. Search for anything in everything... fast!
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 a high-performance file system search utility. Not only is ugrep ultra fast, ugrep has much more to offer than GNU/BSD grep and other grep-like utilities:
| ugrep | GNU grep | BSD grep | |
| Open source license | BSD | GPL | BSD |
| Ultra fast parallel search with avx/sse2, 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, .bz, .bz2, .lzma, .xz, .zip) | 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 |
| Search files by filename extensions and magic bytes | yes | no | no |
| Custom output options (CSV, JSON, XML) | yes | no | no |
| User-specified custom output formatting | yes | no | no |
| Sort output by file name, size, and time used/changed/created | 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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