Questions tagged [find-in-files]
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Notepad++ Find in Files Filters
When using Notepad++ Find in Files feature is there a way to adjust the filter, so that it will search more than one filetype (e.g. *.c and *.h)?
Jim Fell
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'Find' in all opened documents in Notepad++?
As we all know that Ctrl+F is the way to find some required text within a file, but how do we go about to find a desired text in all open documents in Notepad++?
ankit
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Notepad++ excluding find filters
In Notepad++ I want to search in all file types except one.
For instance: I want to search in all files but not .class files.
Can the Notepad++ filter can be configured to work this way?
user29169
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How do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux?
how do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux?
I tried find . -name ./* | grep my_phrase
and I tried grep -r "register_long_arrays" *
Itay Moav -Malimovka
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Find in Files across multiple directories with Notepad++
Is there a way to search within multiple directories in Notepad++ using the Find in Files feature?
I'd like to search the two following locations simultaneously:
C:\Views\
H:\Views\
I've tried combining them with a comma, a semicolon, and a space,…
KyleMit
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Is there a smarter Find files utility for Windows 8 than Windows key + F?
Is there any utility for Windows 8 that will basically do the same thing the old "Find" dialog in Explorer did?
Often times (many times a day) I need to find a particular file, and I don't know the name of it or where it is, but I can remember a…
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GUI grep on OS X
This is a question coming from a former/current Windows user. If I'm looking at a Finder window in a particular directory, how can I search for files with names matching a particular pattern (e.g. "p*.php") that contain a particular string of text?
Jason S
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Free Tool to search within files (even over a network)
I need to find some text in a ton of log files that are stored on my network (I don't have them indexed).
The files all have a more or less unique extension. (i.e., they look like this: MyLogFile.txt_100901181706 the numbers are a date/time…
Vaccano
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How to find multiple files in linux system
I have massive of files in my system and every file has one corresponded file name. For example,
test.pdf has a test-project.zip
test2.pdf has a test2-project.zip
test.pdf and test2.pdf are the original files and test-project.zip and…
FlyingCat
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Sublime text. Keep find in files panel open after running search and/or replace operation
I am using Find in files functionality of sublime text regularly (default key binding Ctrl+Shift+F)
Pannel can be hidden by hitting Esc
Whenever I hit Find the pannel itself disappears after operation is performed. It can be called again by hitting…
Art Gertner
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Sed/Awk save text between patterns if contains string
I'm facing an issue with mails. I need to get all messages between 2 people:
somebody1@domain.com and person@domain.com.
The file:
From: somebody1@domain.com
to: person@domain.com
From: somebody2@domain.com
to:…
wtk
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Why can't I search specific things in file explorer?
Specifically,
When I'm in file explorer. I type in the search box in some folder, I type (1). And I want to find all the files with that little piece, and isolate them.
But when I type (1). open parentheses, one, close parentheses. It gives me the…
Redchair123
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Git find line# of change
I want to find when the last time a specific css property was removed in source on my current branch (master). I wrote:
git log -Smystring --source
It gave me a hash. I fired up gitk and pasted the hash and it gave me a huge list of files so I…
BruteCode
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Find files containing a string and execute command
How do I find files that contain a specific string and execute a command on these files?
In my case, I'd like to find all *.md files that contain the string
^ - HIMS$
and stage them with git.
I know I can find files containing the string via this…
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How can I find where a header is referenced in a word document?
I inserted a lot of cross references in my word document.
(in the Insert ribben, the links group, select Cross Reference)
Is there a way to find out where I refered a certain paragraph?
Dirk Horsten
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