tool to search within multiple files

[rh71]

I had been using Homesite / Dreamweaver but with a new OS image I was wondering if I could get a simpler tool to do just this task.

I want to search through multiple files such as .cfm or .vbs/.asp for specific text all at once. With Homesite, I could go to Edit|Search and it allowed me to select a whole directory and it would search through all the files there for the text I specify and returns a list of files that contain it. Perhaps this is called global find. It also allowed for global replace.

Is there something simpler out there that could do the same?

 

[Fallen Kell]

Grep? http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ugrep.htm

 

[Ken g6]

Plus find and, for replacement, sed. If using Windows you can get Cygwin or MinGW to do this stuff, but you'll have to specify the path to find to differentiate it from the Windows find command.

Oh, wait, you said simple. This, perhaps?

 

[rh71]

grepWin works good. Thx all anyway.

 

[Binky]

Try Agent Ransack (free) and/or the paid version File Locator Pro.

 

[beginner99]

notepad++
Search-> Find in Files...

 

[catellus]

windows comes with findstr. It has "search sudirectories" option and regular expressions too.

and for, as in: for /r c: \topfolder %f in (*.txt) do @find "needle" %f

(arrgh!, stupid smileys! 🙂 ) There should not be a space between "c:" and "\topfolder" - sorry)

For, of course, is good for lots more than searching. Just don't forget the space between "in" and "(".