Searching 1000s of individual text files for a certain phrase

[zag]

Is there any way in windows to search multiple text files for a search term?

 

The files are HTML and I cant find an easy way to do it.

[LosOjos]

I thought this was a standard feature of Windows Search?

 

Just open up a search box (or Win+F), select "all files and folders", file name "*.htm*", then enter the search term in the "word or phrase inside the file" box

 

[this is from memory so might be a bit off with field names]

[Neil-Millgate]

LosOjos has it spot on. Just double checked it as well to make sure.

 

Win+F, enter phrase in top right search box, click 'type', select .htm

[zag]

Sorry I want to actually search inside all the HTML files for a phrase.#

 

type:=.htm google.co.uk

 

didnt work

Edited January 23, 2013 by zag

[Neil-Millgate]

Damn your ninja edit Zag... Edited January 23, 2013 by Neil-Millgate

[januttall]

Windows Grep Features i have used grep alot in Linux but there's a windows version . [GREP By the way is free]Open source GPL

also i have heard that indexing needs to be on to use alot of sub features of the windows search.

Edited January 23, 2013 by januttall

[AngryTechnician]

I use the search built in to Notepad++ for this sort of thing.

[Arthur]

didn't work

You may want to try TextCrawler or AstroGrep instead.

Edited January 23, 2013 by Arthur

[zag]

Thanks textcrawler worked perfectly.

[LosOjos]

Sorry I want to actually search inside all the HTML files for a phrase.#

 

type:=.htm google.co.uk

 

didnt work

 

Pretty sure Windows built in search would have done this...

 

[unixman_again]

XP has the "dog" search thingy (which works), W7 has an unreliable built in search. You have to type content:"string you want" in the search box, but experience has shown it doesn't often work. I've never tried the TextCrawler or AstroGrep mentioned above, but I have used Super Finder XT, which works very well but it slow and runs a background program when the search is done. I use DOS FINDSTR, which is quick and work well. In any version of Windows, DOS always has been and always will be your best tool.