fex ----------------- fex is a small command line application (currently only) for windows to facilitate searching in files under known and isolated conditions. I started this project because I needed a fast way to search in source code files while working in Vim. Using grep/ack/findstr was too slow for me on huge code bases and I needed a faster alternative. To achieve this fex has very limited use and by no means does it replace the programs mentioned above. For accepted search patterns have a look at http://code.google.com/p/re2/wiki/Syntax This project was inspired by qgrep (http://qgrep.com/). Libraries used ------------------ fex makes use of the pthreads, re2 and zlib libraries. The code for these (with the exception of pthreads) can be found in the libs/ folder. Small changes were made to get them to compile with visual studio. See the LICENSE and README files in the sub directories of the libs/ folder for the relevant licenses.