Agent Ransack Alternatives

Everything

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on local or removable NTFS volumes on your computer (hence the name "Everything"), and on mapped network drives with ETP server and an everything installation too. You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. 19 languages supported.

Features:

• File Searching
• Instant results
• Support for regular expressions
• Data export/import
• Exclude files and folders
• Monitor File Changes
• File management
• File Searching
• Portable

DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.

Features:

• Search-in-files
• Indexed search
• Online Photo Editor
• Reads odt files
• File content indexing
• File Searching
• Full text search
• Portable
• Search in Archives
• Semantic Search
• Shared folders

RecentX

RecentX gives you fastest access to your files, folders, programs, websites and also clipboard history in Windows. What's special is that it automatically remembers your recent and favorite items so that you can access them faster than searching all the files, folders etc. You can assign tags to all of them. You will be surprised to see how much hassle it saves and makes computing really enjoyable. We have stuffed this app with innovations that will boost your productivity.

Features:

• Program Launchers
• Desktop Environment
• File Searching
• Bookmark History
• Clipboard monitoring
• Drag n drop
• Duplicate File Finder
• Windows Explorer integration
• File Tagging
• Folder-Search
• Folder Tagging
• Indexed search
• Local Search
• Portable
• Image Preview
• Tabbed interface
• Tag based

FSearch

FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3. Note: The application is in an early development stage and still considered alpha Features * Instant (as you type) results * RegEx support * Filter support (only search for files, folders or everything) * Fast sort by filename, path, size or modification time * Customizable interface

Features:

• Indexed search
• Support for regular expressions
• File Searching
• Search engine

Cathy

An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CDs, DVDs or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size. Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc.

FileLocator

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality version of FileLocator Pro. It is free for both personal and commercial use. FileLocator Lite is a rebranding of Agent Ransack for corporate environments. It has exactly the same functionality but with a different name and logo.

Features:

• Support for 64 bit
• Support for Double-byte languages
• File Searching
• Support for Multiple threads
• Support for regular expressions

grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

Features:

• File Searching
• Support for regular expressions

Search Monkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in JAVA it is highly portable, and as well as running on Linux, ports are available on FreeBSD, or even Windows and MacOS.

Features:

• Real-Time Search
• Content Searching
• File Searching
• Portable

AstroGrep

AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

Features:

• File Searching
• Gui
• Portable
• Support for regular expressions