Find and search in very large text files
Grep is a powerful, free Mac program, being part of the category Utilities with subcategory Text.
More about Grep
Since the software has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2006, it has reached 1,426 downloads, and last week it gained 1 download.
About the download, Grep is a not that heavy program that doesn’t need as much storage than many software in the section Utilities.
Grep is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and former versions, and it is available in English. The current version of the program is 1.1.6 and the latest update was on 11/22/2006.
Grep is an application providing superior performance for loading and searching through large text files. It has all the following features:
- Interpret text documents in any encoding supported by Mac OS X
- Highly optimized loading and matching of very large text files
- Support for textual and regular expression (PCRE) matching
- Threaded loading and matching to keep UI responsive at all times
- Multithreaded matching to improve performance on multi-CPU machines
- Highlight matching rows, or filter out and show only matching rows
