
Not only does it get updated quite often, it also shows you where in the file the text was found. AstroGrepĪstroGrep is also another really good search program. The results are listed in the bottom window and you can just double-click on them to open the files. It also adds an option to the right-click context menu in Explorer to quickly search a folder.

You can limit the search by file size, file type and other criteria. They also have a tutorial on their website to help with regular expressions, though you can Google for many more.

It supports regular expressions and allows you to find and replace text also. GrepWin is probably the most popular out of the tools mentioned here.
