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Find text in files, reccomend an app?

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 2008-01-21 10:41:05

I've tried the built in windows explorer search for this kind of thing many times and it's utter crap... even when I search plain text files for words I know exist within said files, it still turns up nothing. Notepad++ has a nice feature to search for text in all open files, but having hundreds of tabs open becomes hard…

21-01-2008 10:41am

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DonkeyStyle \o/

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I've tried the built in windows explorer search for this kind of thing many times and it's utter crap... even when I search plain text files for words I know exist within said files, it still turns up nothing.
Notepad++ has a nice feature to search for text in all open files, but having hundreds of tabs open becomes hard to manage.
Is there any nice little lightweight freeware app out there for this? All I need is plain-text searches within folders... has anyone tried one that they'd recommend?

Cheers.

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#2 22-01-2008 10:43am

Loveless

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I can definitely recommend UltraEdit32. I regularly use it for searching files like .txt, .htm, .m3u, .nri etc.

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