Genivia/ugrep
🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 96
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 10
- age_days: 2684
- days_rel: 28
- days_push: 9
- n_releases_24m: 24
Adoption not part of the score
3258 stars · 141 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
ugrep is a fast, user-friendly grep replacement written in C++ that searches files with regex, fuzzy, and Boolean AND/OR/NOT patterns. It includes an interactive TUI and can search nested archives, compressed files, and documents like PDF and docx.
Use cases
- search files for a pattern from the command line
- find a faster drop-in replacement for grep
- search inside zip and tar archives without extracting them
- interactively search files as I type with a TUI
- fuzzy search for misspelled patterns in a codebase
- search PDF and docx documents for text
- hexdump and search binary files
- output grep results as JSON or CSV
When to choose
- you want a grep-compatible tool with more features and better performance
- you need to search compressed files, archives, or documents directly
- you want an interactive query TUI with Boolean and fuzzy search
- you need Unicode and multi-line regex matching
When to avoid
- you need a minimal POSIX-exact grep with no extra behavior
- you prefer ripgrep's Perl-regex-only workflow and existing tooling
- you need a GUI-based file search tool
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
search-engine cli parser terminal-ui developer-tools files windows bsd cli cpp cross-platform grep-replacement regex fuzzy-search archive-search hexdump unicode code-search file-indexing tui command-line search linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep · fetched 2026-08-28 · f3e5319dce08
- homepage: https://ugrep.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5d0860ee8a64
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Genivia/ugrep | main | 98 |
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