Question Any program can read and search multiple text files?

[richfororbit]

Hi,

I wanted to know, are there any programs besides using Excel that can read/search through multiple text files?

Thank you.

 

[jedidia]

 

[richfororbit]

:blush:Right.

I read on Bing, there are may be some programs that can be made to do so.

 

[martins]

sed?

 

[Urwumpe]

Notepad++ for the Windows world

Or grep in both worlds, though the Windows version might be a bit disappointing.

 

[Sunhillow]

Or grep in both worlds, though the Windows version might be a bit disappointing.

... But still better than findstr or find :lol:

For a few not too big files notepad++ is perfect!

 

[Keatah]

Windows' built-in search function will find text strings in any folder of files or a single file.

 

[Urwumpe]

Windows' built-in search function will find text strings in any folder of files or a single file.

But it lacks regular expressions. Or negations.

 

[Ajaja]

I think, any program that looks like this can do it

 

[dbeachy1]

For Windows, there is also my favorite file viewer, "V" -- it can do regex searches, too, in addition to searching multiple files (including, optionally, subdirectories): https://www.fileviewer.com/

 

[Lucy]

egrep -r "expression" /

 

[mrozigor]

Maybe https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/? I used to use it on Windows PC years ago and it was pretty good.

 

[RisingFury]

 

[IDNeon]

B

But it lacks regular expressions. Or negations.

Bro. Do you even know what you're looking for? ? k j/k

 

[dbeachy1]

I like using The V File Viewer; it can search entire trees of files as well, and can even use regex if you like. Been using it for all kinds of file viewing (even hex) for many years now.

 

[Urwumpe]

B

Bro. Do you even know what you're looking for? ? k j/k

I paid my bills mostly by knowing how to use grep. ?

 

[Nikogori]

I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft overlords

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