PowerGREP™ Screen Shots
Visual Search and Replace Utility
Fully Flexible Design
PowerGREP consists of seven panes that you can arrange in any way you want. You can dock panes side by side, arrange them in tabs, or make them float. Adjust PowerGREP to the way you like to work. PowerGREP comes with several pre-arrange layouts for small, large and widescreen monitors, as well as dual monitor computers.
The screen shots below have been kept small to make them easier to put on this web site. They also have most panels arranged side by side, to make them visible in the screen shot. This makes the layout a bit cramped. In practice, you'll either use a tabbed layout on a small screen, or a side by side layout on a large screen, making PowerGREP much more usable.
Screen Shots
- Searching for information
- Search and replace
- Collecting information and statistics
- Undo history
- Search through PDF documents
- Search through MS Word documents
- Search through Excel spreadsheets
- Work with binary files in hexadecimal mode
- Search through zip archives
- Regular expression sequences
- Change the colors
Searching for Information
In the above screen shot, I searched through all HTML files in the folder c:\My Documents\My Web Sites and all its subfolders. I used one regular expression to limit the search to HTML anchor tags, and another to find all email addresses in the anchors.
Search and Replace
This screen shot was taken after I opened the "Update Copyright Statements" example action that is included with PowerGREP and described in the help file. I did a preview of the search and replace operation on a bunch of HTML files. Like in the previous screen shot, the search matches are highlighted in yellow in the results. After each search match, PowerGREP indicates what the match would have been replaced with if we had clicked the Execute button instead of the Preview button. I double-clicked a match to open the file and inspect the context.
After clicking the Execute button, the colors used in the report have changed to indicate the replacements were actually made.
Collecting Information and Statistics
This image shows the results of "Inspect Apache web logs - Google search terms" example action included with PowerGREP. The regular expression, which is clearly explained in the help file, matches one line in an Apache web log file of which the referring URL is a Google search page. We collected "\2", which is whatever is matched between the second pair of parenthesis in the regular expression. In this case, the search terms embedded in the Google referring URL extracted from the web logs. Extra processing is used to convert URL-encoded characters back to normal characters.
Flexible Undo History for Peace of Mind
Thanks to PowerGREP's flexible backup options, I can still fully undo this action until I decide to delete the backup files. I can easily do so in an instant on the Undo History page.
Search through PDF Documents
In the above screen shot, I searched for the word "PowerGREP" through a bunch of PDF files. The results and file editor in the above screen shot show the file PowerGREP.pdf. This is PowerGREP's printable manual that is included with the PowerGREP software itself.
Search through MS Word Documents
In the above screen shot, I searched for the word "PowerGREP" through a bunch of MS Word documents. The results and file editor in the above screen shot show the file PowerGREP.doc that served as the basis for PowerGREP's printable manual that is included in PDF format with the PowerGREP software itself.
Search through Excel Spreadsheets
In the above screen shot, I searched for the word "PowerGREP" through a bunch of Excel spreadsheets. You can see the search results. I opened the file JGsoft Price List.xls in PowerGREP's built-in file editor, which displays the spreadsheet as plain text.
Work with Binary Files in Hexadecimal Mode
PowerGREP enables you to work with binary files just as easily as with plain text files. You can search for a text string or for a sequence of bytes that you can enter in hexadecimal mode. The results and editor will show the file's contents in hexadecimal and textual representation, just like a hex editor would do.
Search Through ZIP Archives
PowerGREP enables you to work with zip files as if they were regular file folders. PowerGREP decompresses files inside zip archives on-the-fly. In the screen shot, I've asked PowerGREP for a list of PDF, text and HTML files, including those inside zip files.
Regular Expression Sequences
Most grep tools can only search for a single regular expression. With PowerGREP you can use as many regular expressions or literal search terms as you want, with PowerGREP's powerful regular expression sequence capabilities. In the screen shot, I'm performing two substitutions at once, searching only through comments and strings in Java and C++ source code files (as opposed to the entire files).
Change the Colors
PowerGREP uses many colors to highlight search matches and replacements in the results. Since tastes differ, you can adapt all the colors used by the results view and by the file viewer's syntax coloring to your own preferences. You can configure a large number of other options as well.
Get Your Own Copy of PowerGREP Now
There are two ways in which you can get your own copy of PowerGREP and evaluate the software risk-free.
The best option is to buy your own copy of PowerGREP for US$ 149. Your purchase is covered by Jan Goyvaerts's personal three month risk-free unconditional money-back guarantee. This allows you to try the software without any limitations and without any risk for three months.
Alternatively, you can download the free evaluation version of PowerGREP. The free evaluation version can be downloaded anonymously. It allows you to explore PowerGREP for 15 days of actual use. Full documentation is included. The documentation extensively covers both PowerGREP itself, and the regular expression syntax.
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