Search in Text/html files

[rando]

Everything is by far the best file search software.
I always hope that there will be also one day a textsearch engine inside.

I often haven to search within files for text.
Does anyone know a very good and fast text search software?

[Boofo]

I use the built-in search feature in Total Commander. It is pretty configurable and not bad for speed.

[rando]

I use the built-in search feature in Total Commander. It is pretty configurable and not bad for speed.

a text search in TC?
How do you do this?

You mean the Find Text in Find in files?

If you find text in TC you have to open the file (there is no text viewer in Find Files) and when the file is open the searched/founded text is not highlighted in the file.

I think this is not a good alternative.
I use searchopia, find it much better, but I would like something as everything but with fast text search also.

(I use TC also).

[Boofo]

a text search in TC?
How do you do this?

You mean the Find Text in Find in files?

If you find text in TC you have to open the file (there is no text viewer in Find Files) and when the file is open the searched/founded text is not highlighted in the file.

I think this is not a good alternative.
I use searchopia, find it much better, but I would like something as everything but with fast text search also.

(I use TC also).

True, there are some limitations, but I also use EditPlus and can find the text with that. I don't so a lot of text searching in files, though. If I do, I use Search and Replace, but it is not free.

[void]

I have plans to add optional file content indexing in a future release of "Everything".

[rando]

I have plans to add optional file content indexing in a future release of "Everything".

Great David

[rjblakel]

@Void: here's another vote for a tool to search in documents (txt, pdf, doc, etc). For those that are concerned about performance issues, you could simply create two versions of Everything - the original and the in-depth search.

One feature request - if you do create an in-document search tool, please, please, please allow it to do NEAR (proximity) searches. For example, searching for "empire" within two words of "back", would retrieve Empire Strikes Back.

[yaruk]

powergrep is fast, displays an extract from each file, you can run a demo of it. But it is 30 day or something.

[rando]

I have plans to add optional file content indexing in a future release of "Everything".

Any news David?

[void]

Content indexing still needs a lot of work..

[zuki7]

Does anyone know a very good and fast text search software?

Agent Ransack is free and very good. Its text searching is fast enough for me.
http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?typ ... &page=home

[rando]

I use index your files to search within documents.

Everything has the potential to be the best of all.
It is i.m.o. already the best file searcher.

[H.Seldon]

You might also like to try AstroGrep at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/astrogrep/

[rando]

Yes I know the software.
However it is not updated since a lot of time.
It seems that the project is dead.

Another great software (even better as Astrgrep): DocFetcher.
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

[H.Seldon]

Yes, I've looked at this software. But, a 21 MB download is rather large for a text search utility. It also requires Java.

[rando]

Yes, I've looked at this software. But, a 21 MB download is rather large for a text search utility. It also requires Java.

Yes true, bit it doesn't take a lot of memory.

Another great software is Searchopia:
http://www.sunrizen.com/

Its now free.

[prettyming]

You can try a powerful but easy to use software - TextFinding.com, which can help you to search for specific text in all types of files on your pc and other networked computers.

[siyuan123]

Hi, I have also tried http://www.textfinding.com to search within files for text. It is really a very good and fast text search software.

[dylmeyers]

I just found one called AIKIN HyperSearch http://grappledata.com/aikin/
It claims to do super fast fuzzy content search across a wide range of doc types including html as well as fuzzy lookup on item names. Looks pretty good from what I'm reading but the proof is in the pudding... will take a look and let you all know my mini review after giving it a few laps.