Program that searches within text files

[imported_KuJaX]

I have a bunch of websites that I am doing some coding for. There is a total of around 100+ files, and sometimes I need to find what specific file has a specific string (.php).

What is the industry standard as far as indexing these files, and searching within these .php, .txt and .html files?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

grep

- M4H

 

[mugs]

Any decent text editor should have a search feature that can include all of the files in a directory (or below directory). EditPlus is one, I use it.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
grep

- M4H

/thread!

 

[SagaLore]

I just use the Windows search tool. But I'm sure I could write a batch script to do it too.

 

[BrianH1]

Spotlight. hardy har har

 

[Megatomic]

Google desktop search?

 

[BigJ]

It's actually pretty easy to create a program that would read in the files and do just what you were looking for.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: BigJ
It's actually pretty easy to create a program that would read in the files and do just what you were looking for.

Perl would be a good language to do it in. It even has a built-in grep function.

 

[imported_KuJaX]

Originally posted by: mugs
Any decent text editor should have a search feature that can include all of the files in a directory (or below directory). EditPlus is one, I use it.

EditPlus i Just tried and seems to work fantastic!

 

[zoiks]

$start_path = 'C:\Temp2';
&read_dir($start_path);
sub read_dir {
$start_path_loc = shift @_;
&print_file($start_path_loc) if (-f $start_path_loc && -e $start_path_loc);
if (-d $start_path_loc && -e $start_path_loc)
{
opendir(DH, $start_path_loc) or warn($! . " - $start_path_loc");
while ( defined (my $item_read = readdir DH) )
{

next if $item_read =~ /^\.\.?$/;
$start_path_loc = "$start_path_loc\\$item_read";
if (-d $start_path_loc && -e $start_path_loc)
{
&read_dir($start_path_loc);
print "$start_path_loc\n";

} elsif (-f $start_path_loc && -e $start_path_loc)
{
print "$start_path_loc\n";
$start_path_loc =~ s/(.*)\\.*$/\1/;
}
if (!$item_read)
{
$start_path_loc =~ s/(.*)\\.*$/\1/;
break;
}
}
}
}

sub print_file {
$filedir = shift @_;
print $filedir;
}



This should retrieve the files recursively in a directory structure. Needs modification though. You probably will need to change the regex to find the type of file and then pipe it into an input stream and then parse each line for the string (using another regex).

 

[Cooler]

C++ has great string manip fuctions.

 

[MattCo]

Advanced Find and Replace is a pretty good tool.

-MC