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tgrepack
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Free

Free and open source.

Windows, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast
  • Regular expression search
  • Built for searching source code rather than general text
  • Full Perl regular expressions
  • Needs a background server and index, unlike plain grep or ripgrep
  • Benefit is mainly on very large codebases
  • Needs a Perl interpreter
  • Newer tools such as ripgrep are typically faster on very large trees
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: Artistic-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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