Desktop search: Difference between revisions

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* {{Gd}} [http://www.wingrep.com/ Windows Grep: Grep for Windows] v.2.3 {{Win}}

** [[Regular expression]]: supported

* {{Gd}} [http://www.sublimetext.com/ Sublime Text] v.2

** Regular expression: supported<ref>[http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/search_and_replace/search_and_replace_overview.html Search and Replace — Sublime Text Unofficial Documentation]</ref><ref>[http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html Perl Regular Expression Syntax - 1.47.0]</ref>

** refine the search: file name, file type (separated by , symbol, ex: {{kbd | key= *.html, *.htm}} to search the text in the html and htm file types) , folder。 Menu -> Find -> Find in files -> Where: Add include filters<ref>[http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5803 Sublime Forum • View topic - Find in Files of Filetype]</ref>

* [http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html grepWin] v1.5.6.x

** Regular expression: supported

** comment: If there are too many matches, the software will be frozen and get back after some minutes. {{exclaim}}

* [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++] v5.9.8<ref>[http://npp-community.tuxfamily.org/documentation/notepad-user-manual/searching/searching-files Searching in Files]</ref>

** Regular expression: supported

** refine the search: file name, file type (separated by ; symbol, ex: {{kbd | key= *.html; *.htm}} to search the text in the html and htm file types) , folder

* [http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm Grep for Windows] {{Win}} <abbr title="命令列介面, command-line interface">CLI</abbr>

* [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/findstr.mspx?mfr=true Findstr] {{Win}}

* Grep command for {{linux}} <ref>[http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-search-find-file-for-text-string/ Finding a File containing a particular text string in Linux server]</ref>

** multiple files: {{kbd | key=<nowiki>grep -ir "string to search" /path/to/directory</nowiki>}}<ref>options (1) -i, which means ignore case (2) -r means search recursively through an entire directory tree including the sub directory [http://www.linfo.org/grep.html How to use the grep command, by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)]</ref>

** single file: {{kbd | key=<nowiki>grep "string to search" /path/to/file</nowiki>}} ex: keyin {{kbd | key=grep avc /var/log/messages}} to find the SELinux log messages<ref>[http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux HowTos/SELinux - CentOS Wiki] / [http://wiki.centos.org/zh-tw/HowTos/SELinux zh-tw/HowTos/SELinux - CentOS Wiki](in Chinese) </ref>

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