[breachxyz]

I'm looking for the best ways to search through large text files and compressed text files (like
.zip,.7z, etc.) while minimizing search time. Some of the files I work with are massive, and searching through them with basic tools (Select-String) can be quite slow.

[float]

EmEditor, vim, and grep.

[7oFL]

Second vim.
qgrep is an interesting project that is faster than grep.

[Breach_Forums]

Use zgrep or bzgrep for searching inside compressed files (.gz, .bz2) without extracting them.