ugrep
✅ Recently maintained🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
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C++ · BSD-3-Clause · Last push 2026-10-26
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Get the project
git clone https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep.gitCloning downloads the source. For dependencies and installation, follow the project README.
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