ScanFS is a well-designed desktop search tool, particularly useful for its file management, search and replace options.
Features:
- Search in single directories or directory groups
- Search and replace in multiple files
- Supports simple or regular expressions for filenames and file contents
- Live preview of file contents, without the need to rescan the file system
- Live preview of images
- Windows Explorer integration (by clicking the search button, or pressing F3)
- Search using multiple file patterns
- Save/Load search criteria
- Full unicode support (filenames, file contents, search results, search and replace)
- Refine search mode (search within catalogs or existing results)
- Copy/Move/Delete/Rename files and/or directories
- Drag-drop support, e.g. drop files in explorer windows
- Can be used as a visual replacement for the command-line grep command