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O.P. Searching text files
Whats the best way to search over 100 text files, for one word?
05-02-2009 03:45 PM
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RE: Searching text files
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Whats the best way to search over 100 text files, for one word?
Can't windows search look for words inside those files?
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O.P. RE: Searching text files
I would like to search over 100 text files for a certain word, and then display that line, which has the certain word in, into a another text file?
Is that possible?
05-02-2009 04:18 PM
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RE: Searching text files
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I would like to search over 100 text files for a certain word, and then display that line, which has the certain word in, into a another text file?
Is that possible?
Linux + some combination of cat and grep
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RE: Searching text files
It'd be quite easy in PHP...
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RE: Searching text files
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Open each file and press Ctrl + F?
100 times?! =P

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It'd be quite easy in PHP...
How? =O
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O.P. RE: Searching text files
Yeah i know its possible in linux, just wondering if there was any way possible in windows?
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RE: Searching text files
Take a look at this article, and also look at all the comments (lots of related programs, including cygwin :P).

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RE: Searching text files
python would be eaiser, use regex in python:), if you need me to write something, pm or post

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RE: Searching text files
If all the text files are in the same directory, open a command prompt in that directory and run...

find "word" *.txt > ..\results.txt

(The results file is in the parent directory so it won't be included in the search =p)

You could also use a text editor with a "find in files" feature, like PSPad or Notepad++ or EditPlus.

This post was edited on 05-03-2009 at 01:06 AM by WDZ.
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