florisch Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 G'day, I'm just not creative today. I want to search the content of all files in a folder for a keyword, just like I can do with the search function in explorer. Of course I could automate that, but it would be far more elegant to do this in the background. Any idea anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsaltyDS Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 G'day,I'm just not creative today. I want to search the content of all files in a folder for a keyword, just like I can do with the search function in explorer. Of course I could automate that, but it would be far more elegant to do this in the background. Any idea anyone?FileRead() and StringInStr()? What was the hard part? Valuater's AutoIt 1-2-3, Class... Is now in Session!For those who want somebody to write the script for them: RentACoder"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Geek's corollary to Clarke's law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 run "grep for Windows" and parse the output.http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm __________________________________________________________(l)user: Hey admin slave, how can I recover my deleted files?admin: No problem, there is a nice tool. It's called rm, like recovery method. Make sure to call it with the "recover fast" option like this: rm -rf * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
florisch Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 FileRead() and StringInStr()? What was the hard part?The hard part is that these files are not plain text. Explorer search can search doc, ppt, pdf etc too ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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