Re: What is a good tool to search for files/text?

From: jerry s (js_at_spam.com)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:08:25 -0700



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In your sample (via the command line search script), the search engine only
looks for "html" matches.  For example, it found text that have *.html (such
as web addresses).
My sample:
I changed the path in my cmd prompt:
c:\program files\document and settings\<user>\my documents\
  for /r  %A in (*.*) do find /n "EditPad" "%A"&&pause
The result:
It found text files that contains an web-address of "...EditPadLite.com".
However, in a text file that don't have a web-address, but contain the word
"EditPad", it did "not" listed as a match.
Also, the command prompt search disregards WinZip files (*.zip). I have
"thousands of files" and if I need to look up a document that talks about
"EditPad" (without a web address in it), my result is zero.
Side notes:
I think a lot of Users want things that are simple.  Perhaps, a User may
post his comments (with "attitude" as seen in the original poster of this
thread) may due to his frustrations, as opposed for his intent to offend the
volunteers of this forum.  Personally, I look directly at a poster's
question (or his intent) and ignore all his "frustrated add-on remarks".
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"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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It actually to stop irrelevent hits.
EG If you're a bridge designer you may deal with spans. But span is also a
html keyword. If this user searches for span they will find nearly every
html document on their computer (in a 95 search), none will be relevent. XP
searches for user data not formatting or other internal binary data.
Best way to think of it is like google. Google does the same things.
And like google it can do summaries of pages. XP also supports metadata
searching (eh pictures 640 px wide).
You can always use a command prompt
for /r c:\ %A in (*.*) do find /n "XP" "%A"&&pause
Which searches all files for XP, displaying results and waiting on each file
with the term found.
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"jerry s" <js@spam.com> wrote in message
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> I understand the XP team designed it that way.  I believe one rationale
> behind that design is to "limit" the number of hits. The XP design team
> assumes many of the results would be unrelated to the User's query.
>
> The trade off for this scheme is the OS will also omit legit matches.
>
> I prefer that opposit theory.  Let the OS do the shotgun approach. Look
for
> all matches, then let the User "refine" the query by his/her filter
> criterias.
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> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> It has no problems. It works exactly as designed.
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> "jerry s" <js@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, Win XP's search for "text" engine has some problems with
> some filter components that ignores certain "text" words or phrases.  You
may
> need to register some of the filter components.
>
> To answer your question, there is an alternative utility that can do
> searches for "text" as in all previous versions of Windows.
>
> It's called  Salamander File Manager.
>
>     http://www.altap.cz/download.html#salrel
>
>  Look for version 1.52 (free version).
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> "P. Burrows" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I was seaching for some text in a file and the windows (lame) find
> files/text system didn't list any files? Then i opened some at random in
> an editor and found the file i was looking for. It was there, in the
> directories i had searched - but still their find function didn't show
> anything (why am i not surprised)
>
> Can anyone suggest a good replacement for it?
>

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