This is much faster than Windows Explorer and actually found the text I was searching for, whereas using Windows Explorer didn't yield search results for me. For me, the best answer on this topic because you do not need to install anything. In my case I had to complement adding some arguments because is too much information to appear on the screen.
This is a great util, but it seems it can't read Cyrillic characters in file names. Show 1 more comment. Original Answer Windows Grep does this really well. An alternate download link is here: Windows Grep - alternate Current Answer Visual Studio Code has excellent search and replace capabilities across files.
On my machine Windows 7 , it crashed twice. I'll try something else. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven. It is old, it crashed for me too. Even if not perfect for some goals grepWin is better imoh — Paolo. AstroGrep is also fast and it is no-istall — Zorb. Worked fine for me on Windows 7 - no crashes — w5m. Show 11 more comments. Its features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code Reference: AstroGrep.
Anytoe Anytoe 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Off all the other ones listed here, this is the only that lets specify exclusion patterns for folders. Very good software, fast, configurable, and show files along with related context — HanniBaL And 'fast' deserves a second mention Add a comment.
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Friday, June 5, PM. I found out lots, thanks to your post, it's very interesting. Reading vague long-winded articles, it seems to some people's satisfaction, that only certain things in XML files can be searched.
I know I'm wrong I have to be , but at least windows search seems to bear this out. More specifically, an attribute might not be found but text would be "this would". Unless the attribute is specifically declared searchable. Saturday, June 6, AM. Hi, don't want to interrupt you, but I think an answer to this is more likely to be found when posting on the MSDN forums.
Sunday, June 7, PM. The author suggests "a simple text search" is all you need, but since this was tried already, you might like his solution. My solution is to copy all the XML files into an empty folder.
Then search works on anything in the file. The only other solution I found is lacking a link, although I know one exists. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I want to search for files with one string in it as well as files with another string, and a third, and so on. The reason I dont do this separately is because i want to search for files that contain any one of dozens of strings and copy the resulting file list all at once, rather than copying and pasting dozens of times.
For example, in Windows XP I would enter ", , " without quotes and so on, and I would get a list of files that contain , for example, DSC the jpg, the raw, and all the other versions i created of the image , DSC all its versions , and DSC and all its versions and so on.
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