Is there a way to look for text within multiple html files?

[PHiuR]

I have some chat logs which are logged as HTML files. I would like to do a search through the logs to find a specific line of text.

What's the best way to go about doing this?

thanks in advance,
phi

 

[MegaVovaN]

Windows search, "search in file"

there are 3rd party programs that do this well.

 

[BigJ]

How many HTML files?

Think of it this way, is it faster to go about trying shit you don't know how to do? Or is it faster opening them up and hitting CTRL + F, CTRL + V, Enter.

 

[MegaVovaN]

maybe this:
http://www.ekcsoft.com/enhance.html

 

[FoBoT]

html files are just text files, so any text searching tool that can check multiple files will work
the built in windows search , as megavovan suggests is easiest

 

[PHiuR]

about one hundred files or so.

 

[Sahakiel]

findstr /s /i /p /c:searchstringhere .

 

[PHiuR]

whoa...I just did what BigJ suggested and I just went into the file and hit CTRL+F and found it in the third document out of 90 documents...haha awesome.

thanks all.

 

[zoiks]

If you're on linux, you can use find in the directory that has the html files.

find . exec grep "search_text" '{}' \; -print

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: zoiks
If you're on linux, you can use find in the directory that has the html files.

find . exec grep "search_text" '{}' \; -print

Why not just 'grep -i 'your_expression' *.html
?