Re: Enable string search inside text files in Windows XP



Mahdad <Mahdad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've done this before on my own Windows XP machine and got it working, but
>forgot to document
>the steps and I need to pass this information to someone else. By default,
>Windows
>XP's file search doesn't allow string search inside text files on your file
>system,

I don't know what you're talking about here. In the desktop GUI file
search utility you can click "Use advanced search options", which
allows you to search for a word or phrase in the file.

Also, you can use the command line "findstr" app, which allows you to
search for a string in a file. You can even use Regular Expressions.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
.



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