ugrep

ugrep 7.8.5

An ultra-fast, user-friendly, and compatible grep replacement

  • By Genivia Inc.
  • Open Source
  • Updated Sep 15, 2026
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About ugrep

An ultra-fast, user-friendly grep replacement.
Ugrep combines the best features of other grep, adds new things, and surpasses their search speeds.
Includes a TUI, boolean queries (AND/OR/NOT), fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches nested archives (cpio/tar/pax/zip), compressed files (zip/gz/Z/bz2/lzma/xz/lz4/zstd), pdfs, docs, and more

What's new in 7.8.5

What's new?

  • update option --encoding=CP437 to retain LF (10) and CR (13) codes in the output #569
  • fix a rare edge case for the --encoding option when internally converting a specified code page or a utf-encoding to UTF-8 #568
  • update option -z (--decompress) for reasonable xz/lzma decoding limits #566
  • update matching mode flags -E, -F, -G, and -P to respect order on the command line to permit overriding (like BSD grep) #562 (see follow-up comments)
  • output an error message when regex matching mode flags are used in a config file, instead of silently ignoring them #562 (see follow-up comments)

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Technical details

PublisherGenivia Inc.
AuthorRobert van Engelen
Version7.8.5
Release date2026-09-15
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Installer typezip
Architecturex64
Package IDGenivia.ugrep

Links & install command

Install ugrep from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Genivia.ugrep -e

code-searchfile-indexingfile-searchfuzzy-searchgrephexdumpinteractiverecursively-searchregexripgrepsearchsilver-searchertartuiunicodezip

Older versions

  • 7.8.4
  • 7.8.3
  • 7.8.2
  • 7.8.1
  • 7.8.0
  • 7.7.0
  • 7.6.0
  • 7.5.0
  • 7.4.3

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