Lean and mean file searching on Windows [closed]

grepWin (not wingrep) is exactly what I was looking for!

grepWin (not wingrep) is exactly what I was looking for!

Try the free version of Agent Ransack. It has a nice GUI, doesn't use an index and is still pretty fast. It can use regular expressions for the string to find and the files to find, and it shows a handy preview of each matching file.

"When extensive searching is required where the Windows Indexed searches would be typically recommended, I usually use locate32.exe.

But, I usually give in to a Cygwin, bash, find with sed, grep and sometimes AWK, to get a file.

Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog based application as well as console programs which can be used to both update and access databases. Supported operation systems are Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista.

I suspect it is not meant to search inside file however."