A few times each week, we get questions about the name of our powerful search tool. Why was it opriginally called WinGREP (now named Hurricane Search)?
GREP was originally a tool available on UNIX platforms allowing you to search for text. You could customize searches using a complex array of command line switches. GREP would use Regular Expression syntax to help you find very specific pieces of text embedded in a text file, with output simply redirected to the screen. Then along came Windows with GUI interfaces. Many GREP-like utilities have been created for the windows environment, but most of these utilities don’t take advantage of the rich user interface features available in a Windowing system. This is where WinGREP comes in. Hurricane Search has a powerful interface that does away with the need for command line GREP utilities. It contains the features that you have come to expect in quality professional software: look-and-feel customization, easy to use user interface to help minimize your typing, integrated on-line help, and seamless integration into your working environments. Hurricane Search references the old Unix GREP in it
