Hurricane Search Extensive Search Tool

Hurricane Search (formerly WinGREP) is used by thousands of professionals worldwide, including law enforcement investigators, computer forensics investigators, legal researchers, systems administrators, security specialists, software developers, linguists and others like you, Hurricane Search helps you quickly perform complex searches and analyze log files.
Standard Edition
$89

The industry standard in searching providing a fast and flexible search to find data stored in text files on computer hard drives and CD's.
Professional Edition
$149

This edition builds off of the industry standard in searching and allows the user to search in more file types including: Binary, Archived (ZIP and Java JAR), Microsoft Word, and Adobe PDF files. Please feel free to click the download button to start a 15-day trial version today.

Hurricane Search Overview

  • Select multiple directories to include or exclude from searches

  • Search your technical documents and product manuals from one convenient environment

  • User interface enhances the way you work through minimized keystrokes, resulting in maximized productivity

  • Real time searching across large files and directories - never wait for indexing or lose recent changes

  • Preview your search results in context (view the search match and several lines around the match)

  • Supports regular expressions for additional control characters, newline, grouping, logical OR, whitespace tags, alpha tags, and digit expressions

  • Zip and Binary Searching to retrieve data in .zip files, as well as any binary file

  • Project support allows you to organize and save important search criteria on a project by project basis

  • Replace feature rapidly replaces text in matched text

  • Save search results for later use or launch applications associated with search results

  • Find text in PC, UNIX and Mac files


Hurricane Search Features Standard Professional
Search UNIX and DOS/Windows text files
Multi-File search and replace
Editor and IDE launching
Cumulative Search Results
Export search results
  • CSV (comma separated values)
  • Tab delimited
  • XML
  • Standard grep output
Search Microsoft Word files
Search Adobe PDF files
Search Binary files
Search Archive files
  • ZIP files
  • Java JAR files
Looking for more information about the different versions? Please see our full features list.

Hurricane Search has many uses

Software Development
Real time searching enhances individual and team productivity when working on new projects, maintaining established programs, and searching technical documents. Learn more
Forensic Investigation
Hurricane Search has been created to help you search for evidence and solve computer crime. Whether you are a law enforcement professional, conducting intellectual property investigation, or preparing a legal case, Hurricane Search can help you build the evidence required to solve your needs. Learn more
Law Enforcement
Hurricane Search helps law enforcement and military agencies build evidence by searching for relevant data stored on computer hard drives. Text files, PDF documents, binary files and Word files are thoroughly searched as well as archived and compressed files with embedded text. Learn more
Intuitive interface designed to
make searching fast and easy
System Administration
Whether you are a systems administrator tasked with security administration at your company, or a security administrator tasked with keeping your company data safe from intrusion, Hurricane Search will help you search log files to detect hackers who have attempted to gain access to your network. Ensure that sensitive information is protected, investigate employees online activities.
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Legal Research
Legal Practice today often involves searching huge repositories of gathered data in multiple formats. Evidence, documentation and data may be generated using an array of tools and be stored in file formats specific to your practice management software. Along with this information is the need for fast, efficient ability to search existing documents. Learn more

If you have questions, please be sure to check our FAQ.
We also have academic pricing available. Learn more
$89
Standard Edition
$149
Professional Edition
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