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  • I'm on windows, so that's not exactly the answer for me :) Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 15:08
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    I am too. There are a number of ports of grep for Windows. Cygwin works well, and gives you bash and a bunch of other tools too. Also, the built in Windows explorer search will do string searches inside files in indexed locations. Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 15:13