Re: Searching the IFS using Windows7

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

Would 'grep' work?  Or do you want something fancier and more GUI?

Someone told me that they like the search function in Notepad++ if you 
want a GUI solution.  I haven't tried that (yet) myself, though.



On 7/23/2012 3:43 PM, Gerald Kern wrote:
> I just got upgraded to WIN7-Pro here at the office.
>
> On occasion I have to search for a data string in files in folders in my
> IFS, some of which have over 10000 files in them, and all I may have is a
> name and approximate date the file was created. In XP-Pro this was easy as
> cake. But in WIN7, today I had to do my first search to ensure we really
> received a file, but the WIN7 search couldn't find the file. I was able to
> eventually find it manually (by looking in every file received for the last
> three days).
>
> Is there something I'm missing about how to search for a string in a file
> in a particular folder?
>
> Any good articles about how to use search in W7?