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List of desktop search software

full text and filename search

電腦的多個檔案的內文搜尋

Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information v.3.5.1
- range: folders and file types you specified
- refine the search: file name, file type, file size, date, folder. Quotation marks is available. More on Refine a search with operators
- comment: Nice for searching PHP scripts

Ava Find
- range: drive only, could not specific folder

DocFetcher ver. 1.1 beta 6 (經常找不到文件嗎？試試免費的跨平台桌面搜尋工具：DocFetcher | 簡睿隨筆@新世界)
- range: folders and files type you specified
- 搜尋: 支援輸入部分字串
- comment: not suitable for search PHP scripts

Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP (KB917013) from Official Microsoft Download Center

$ Vista Glance Pro
$ X1 Search 8 - Find Emails, Files, and SharePoint Data on Standard or Virtual Desktops(formerly Yahoo! Desktop Search)
$ Examine32 Text Search(30 days trial)
$ Openfind Enterprise Search 企業搜尋軟體 (30 days trial)
Google 桌面搜索 archive of old version: Download Google Desktop 5.9.1005.12335 - FileHippo.com. Not available to download from official website
Zotero v.3 for Firefox
- 搜尋: 儲存在Zotero資料庫的文獻書目、標籤、附檔檔名、附檔(PDF或HTML網頁檔)內文^[1]

Search text in files

by solution

Windows Grep: Grep for Windows v.2.3 Win
- big file search: ok e.g. file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok {Gd}}
- Regular expression: supported
- refine the search:

Sublime Text v.2
- big file search:
- Regular expression: supported^[2]^[3]
- refine the search: file name, file type (separated by , symbol, ex: *.html, *.htm to search the text in the html and htm file types) , folder。 Menu -> Find -> Find in files -> Where: Add include filters^[4]

EmEditor $ "支持大檔案以及Unicode的最佳Windows文字編輯器!"

- big file search: ok
- Regular expression: supported
- refine the search:

grepWin v1.5.6.x
- big file search: file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok;
- Regular expression: supported
- refine the search:
- comment: If there are too many matches, the software will be frozen and get back after some minutes.

Notepad++ v5.9.8^[5]
- big file search: file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: not ok (file is too big to be opened by Notepad++)
- Regular expression: supported
- refine the search: file name, file type (separated by ; symbol, ex: *.html; *.htm to search the text in the html and htm file types) , folder

Grep for Windows Win CLI
- big file search:
- Regular expression:
- refine the search:

Findstr Win
- big file search:
- Regular expression:
- refine the search:

Grep command for Linux ^[6]
- multiple files: grep -ir "string to search" /path/to/directory^[7]
- single file: grep "string to search" /path/to/file ex: keyin grep avc /var/log/messages to find the SELinux log messages^[8]

template (left blank intentionally)

* software name
** big file search:
** Regular expression:
** refine the search:

by logical operators

OR: match the lines which contains pattern1 OR pattern2^[9]

awk '/pattern1|pattern2/' file_name for Linux
grep 'pattern1\|pattern2' file_name
grep -E 'pattern1|pattern2' file_name

AND: match the lines which contains pattern1 AND pattern2

awk '/pattern1/&&/pattern2/' file_name for Linux
grep -E 'pattern1.*pattern2|pattern2.*pattern1' file_name order dependent

file name or folder name search

搜尋範圍(1)資料夾名稱與 (2)檔案名稱

Everything Search Engine(official wiki) version 3.1.4

搜尋: 支援輸入部分字串，輸入 studi* 可以找到 studio ，詳Searching。
媒體: 電腦本地磁碟(local NTFS volumes)，不包含網路磁碟。https://planetoid.info/images/Icon_exclaim.gif不支援 FAT 格式。
可當server
縮小範圍: 可排除特定檔案類型或者特定目錄，不在索引範圍內。
教學: 如何讓 Everything 從遠端電腦搜尋下載本機檔案？並整合到 Firefox 搜尋列？ | 電腦玩物, Everything - 最快的檔名搜尋工具 @ Nelson 不知不覺升上國二了

Locate32

搜尋:
縮小範圍:

Listary - Free Search Utility | Windows Explorer Search | Text Editing

介紹: 快速方便的檔案名稱篩選器–Listary，幫你立刻找出想要的檔案！ - ㊣軟體玩家

Total Commander v7.56a

搜尋:
縮小範圍: 可指定多個資料夾，路徑可用 ; 符號間隔

Where Is It? - "Catalog your media collection, use descriptions, thumbnails and categories, find files or disks you need"

搜尋:
縮小範圍:
其他: 無法將「網路磁碟」納入索引範圍

Wise JetSearch - Fast Local File Search Tool - Search Everything v.1.24.65 (Wise JetSearch 1.24 免安裝中文版 - 取代Windows內建搜尋功能 - 阿榮福利味)

搜尋: 支援輸入部分字串，輸入 * 或 ? 符號。例如: studi? 可以找到 studio。詳Wise JetSearch Online Help Center
媒體: 電腦本地磁碟，支援NTFS, FAT 格式。
縮小範圍: 無法排除特定檔案類型或者特定目錄，在索引範圍內。

Finder for macOS

搜尋: (1)可輸入部分字串，例如輸入 appl 可以找到 apple。 (2)不支援輸入 wildcard (*)
縮小範圍: 可預先設定排除特定目錄

軟體名稱 (left blank intentionally)

搜尋: (1)是否支援輸入部分字串 (2)是否支援輸入 wildcard
縮小範圍:

quick file search filter under a folder: file name or folder name

Press Ctrl + s to use the Quicksearch filter at Total Commander

quick file search filter: file name only

Press Alt + Space to search and launch the file Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. Require index the files first. [Last visited: 2012-02-07]

Search text in files (cloud solution)

full text searching

Google drive: Search your Google Drive - Drive Help text-PDF was tested: 2013-01-06
$ Evernote: Search Better with Evernote Premium: Document Search

file name or folder name searching only

references

↑ pdf_fulltext_indexing (Zotero Documentation)(screencast_tutorials:advanced_search )
↑ Search and Replace — Sublime Text Unofficial Documentation
↑ Perl Regular Expression Syntax - 1.47.0
↑ Sublime Forum • View topic - Find in Files of Filetype
↑ Searching in Files
↑ Finding a File containing a particular text string in Linux server
↑ options (1) -i, which means ignore case (2) -r means search recursively through an entire directory tree including the sub directory How to use the grep command, by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
↑ HowTos/SELinux - CentOS Wiki / zh-tw/HowTos/SELinux - CentOS Wiki(in Chinese)
↑ logical operators in grep

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 ==== by solution ====
 * {{Gd}} [http://www.wingrep.com/ Windows Grep: Grep for Windows] v.2.3 {{Win}}
-** file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok
+** big file search: ok e.g. file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok {Gd}}
 ** [[Regular expression]]: supported
+** refine the search:
 * {{Gd}} [http://www.sublimetext.com/ Sublime Text] v.2
+** big file search:
 ** 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>
+[https://zh-tw.emeditor.com/  EmEditor] ''$'' "支持大檔案以及Unicode的最佳Windows文字編輯器!"
+** big file search: ok {{Gd}}
+** [[Regular expression]]: supported
+** refine the search:
 * [http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html grepWin] v1.5.6.x
-** file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok;
+** big file search: file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok;
 ** Regular expression: supported
+** refine the search:
 ** 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>
-** file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: not ok {{exclaim}} (file is too big to be opened by Notepad++)
+** big file search: file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: not ok {{exclaim}} (file is too big to be opened by Notepad++)
 ** 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>
+** big file search:
+** Regular expression:
+** refine the search:
 * [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/findstr.mspx?mfr=true Findstr] {{Win}}
+** big file search:
+** Regular expression:
+** refine the search:
 * 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>
+template (left blank intentionally)
+<pre>
+* software name
+** big file search:
+** Regular expression:
+** refine the search:
+</pre>
 ==== by logical operators ====