Is there a Pattern Matching Utility like GREP in Windows?

You have obviously gotten a lot of different recommendations.
My personal choice for a Free, 3rd Party Utility is: Agent Ransack
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Despite its somewhat confusing name, it works well and can be used in a variety of ways to find files.

Good Luck

Yes there is only one program for Windows PC which have solid GUI and it is essential util for me. I work as a developer and on every computer I've had, first thing install XFind program. It is created in 1997 and till now version is 1.0 and till now works and it is the best. Frequently I need to search some string in a ".cs", ".aspx", ".sct" (Visual FoxPro form code file) or just ".*" and XFind scans all files and show me files and another great thing is that you can look where string is in the file. XFind has also some kind of editor. If it binary file it will show you string finded. Try it and use it forever if you are developer like me.

I realize its an old question but I came across this post seeking an answer. And I have found one so adding it here for the collective internet memory

Powershell: Select-String Module: Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/select-string

and an informative blog post with advanced examnples: "How to “grep” in PowerShell" https://antjanus.com/blog/web-development-tutorials/how-to-grep-in-powershell/

A simple example from that blog post: cat package.json | Select-String -Pattern webpack ls ./src/components/ | Select-String -Pattern View

C:> cat post.md | Select-String -Pattern "^\w*:"

Just try LikeGrep java utility. It may help you in very many cases. As you wish, it can also replace some text, found in files. It garantees its work on large files (up-to 8 Gb tested)

As mentioned above, the gnuwin32 project has a Windows CLI version of grep.

If you want something with a graphical interface, I would recommend the (open-source) tool AstroGrep.

It has been a while since I've used them, but Borland (Embarcadero now) included a command line grep with their C/C++ compiler. For some time, they have made available their 5.5 version as a free download after registering.

I know that it's a bit old topic but, here is another thing you can do. I work on a developer VM with no internet access and quite limited free disk space, so I made use of the java installed on it.

Compile small java program that prints regex matches to the console. Put the jar somewhere on your system, create a batch to execute it and add the folder to your PATH variable:

JGrep.java:

package com.jgrep;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class JGrep {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        int printGroup = -1;
        if (args.length < 2) {
            System.out.println("Invalid arguments. Usage:");
            System.out.println("jgrep [...-MODIFIERS] [PATTERN] [FILENAME]");
            System.out.println("Available modifiers:");
            System.out.println(" -printGroup            - will print the given group only instead of the whole match. Eg: -printGroup=1");
            System.out.println("Current arguments:");
            for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
                System.out.println("args[" + i + "]=" + args[i]);
            }
            return;
        }
        Pattern pattern = null;
        String filename = args[args.length - 1];
        String patternArg = args[args.length - 2];        
        pattern = Pattern.compile(patternArg);

        int argCount = 2;
        while (args.length - argCount - 1 >= 0) {
            String arg = args[args.length - argCount - 1];
            argCount++;
            if (arg.startsWith("-printGroup=")) {
                printGroup = Integer.parseInt(arg.substring("-printGroup=".length()));
            }
        }
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename))) {
            sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = br.readLine();

            while (line != null) {
                sb.append(line);
                sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
                line = br.readLine();
            }
        }
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(sb.toString());
        int matchesCount = 0;
        while (matcher.find()) {
            if (printGroup > 0) {
                System.out.println(matcher.group(printGroup));
            } else {
                System.out.println(matcher.group());
            }
            matchesCount++;
        }
        System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
        System.out.println("File: " + filename);
        System.out.println("Pattern: " + pattern.pattern());
        System.out.println("PrintGroup: " + printGroup);
        System.out.println("Matches: " + matchesCount);
    }
}

c:\jgrep\jgrep.bat (together with jgrep.jar):

@echo off
java -cp c:\jgrep\jgrep.jar com.jgrep.JGrep %*

and add c:\jgrep in the end of the PATH environment variable.

Now simply call jgrep "expression" file.txt from anywhere.

I needed to print some specific groups from my expression so I added a modifier and call it like jgrep -printGroup=1 "expression" file.txt.

Use Cygwin...

it has 32 and 64 bits versions
and it works fine from Windows 2000 (*)
to Windows 10 or Server 2019

I use Cygwin for a long time...
and recently tryed to substitute with Windows-Linux-Subsystems...

not for long...
I quickly went back to Cygwin again...

much more flexible, controlable and rich...
also less intrusive...

just add \bin to the path...
and you can use it anyware in Windows/Batch/Powershell...
or in a DOS-Box... or in a Powershell-Box...

Also you can install a ton of great packages
that really work... like nginX or PHP... I even use the Cygwin PHP package in my IIS...

As a bonus wou can also use it from a bash shell...
(I think this was the original intent ;-))

May be Everything? It supports regexps and has a console util too.

TL;DR: ripgrep

Since 2009, a lot happened. Rust delivered many CLI utilities, among them ripgrep. It is advertised as a recursively searches directories for a regex pattern, supports Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

It is fast. Look at this performance comparison with similar tools. It also has many explanations on the design of the tool. Quite informative and geeky. =)

Supports a wide range of features that the POSIX grep tools support. Look at the comparison by ack author here.

If you have Scoop, you can install it with scoop install ripgrep. Else head over to the installation section of the doc.