Looking for program that searches contents of directory for file containing a phrase

[Jskid]

I'm looking for a program that searches the contents of a given directory for files containing a certain phrase. In Windows Explorer I tried enabling this feature in the folder options but it didn't work.

 

[ravisunny2]

The good old Search option does not work ?

 

[Jskid]

The good old Search option does not work ?

Not it doesn't for some reason.

 

[ravisunny2]

Check out this link for grep
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

and the one below for File Searcher
http://www.addictivetips.com/window...nt-or-file-type-in-multiple-locations-easily/

Don't know if FreeCommander can do the job.

 

[mike1959]

Hi, My PC magazine featured this one: "Search my files"
http://funk.eu/smf/

Or;-
http://www.sowsoft.com/search.htm

 

[LookinAround]

Checkout SearchMyFiles from Nirsoft. (Same name but not the same tool listed above)

SearchMyFiles allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes.
After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.

 

[stansfield]

Try EVERYTHING program