title: File system regular expression search tool
body: <p>What is the best tool to make complex (multi-line) regular expression file contents searches with good reporting capabilities? </p>
  
  <p>I need to make a report over large Java/JSP code base and I have to make some charts afterward.</p>
  
  <p>Eclipse is rather good at searches, but it does not provide good report of what is found. It just shows the tree of files, but I would like to see a table with columns corresponding to full match, each group, file name, file path, file date, may some version control information etc. Then I can transfer this table to Excel and make some graphs that I want.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some generic file system search tool that has such capabilities? Or maybe there is some Eclispe plugin that can give better reports (note that I'm stuck on eclipse 3.1.2)?</p>