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

Jskid · May 31, 2012

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 · Jun 1, 2012

The good old Search option does not work ?

Jskid · Jun 1, 2012

ravisunny2 said: ↑

The good old Search option does not work ?

Not it doesn't for some reason.

ravisunny2 · Jun 2, 2012

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 · Jun 8, 2012

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

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

LookinAround · Jun 9, 2012

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.

hammi · Apr 9, 2013

TextFinding.com can meet your needs. I have been using it for long time and find it very useful to search for content of files with specific text on your pc and networked computers.

stansfield · Apr 10, 2013

Try EVERYTHING program

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