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List of desktop search software

Full text and filename search[edit]

電腦的多個檔案的內文搜尋

Open-source software of full text search[edit]

BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore for Win , macOS or Linux

File format: plain text files & compressed files
Big file search:
Regular expression: supported (syntax)
License: Dual-licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE

Windows Grep: Grep for Windows v.2.3 Win

File format: plain text files
big file search: ok e.g. file size (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok
Regular expression: supported
refine the search:

Grep command for Linux ^[1]^[2]

File format: plain text files
multiple files: grep -ir "string to search" /path/to/directory^[3]
multiple files: find *.json | xargs grep -E "詐騙|詐欺" -sl to find json files which its content contains the string 詐騙 or 詐欺. more on Search for string in json files
single file: grep "string to search" /path/to/file ex: keyin grep avc /var/log/messages to find the SELinux log messages^[4]

Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information v.3.5.1 on Win

File format:
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

DocFetcher on Win , macOS & Linux (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)

File format: plain text files & compressed files
Range: folders and files type you specified
搜尋: 支援輸入部分字串
License: Eclipse Public License
Comment: not suitable for search PHP scripts

Zotero v.3 for Firefox

File format: Metadata or attached PDF or HTML files
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^[5]

grepWin v1.5.6.x

File format: plain text files
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++ v7.4.2^[6]

File format: plain text files
big file search: file size < 600 MB: ok^[7]
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

File format: plain text files
big file search:
Regular expression:
refine the search:

Findstr command Win

File format: plain text files
big file search:
Regular expression:
refine the search:
instruction:^[8]

Commercial software of full text search[edit]

$ Sublime Text v.2

File format: plain text files
big file search:
Regular expression: supported^[9]^[10]
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^[11]

$ X1 Search 8 - Find Emails, Files, and SharePoint Data on Standard or Virtual Desktops(formerly Yahoo! Desktop Search)

File format:
Range:

$ EmEditor

File format: plain text files
big file search: ok
Regular expression: supported
refine the search:

在 Mac 上使用 Spotlight 搜尋 - Apple 支援 (台灣) on macOS

File format: plain text files

Search text in files (cloud solution)[edit]

full text searching

file name or folder name searching only

template (left blank intentionally)

Software name
* File format
* big file search:
* Regular expression:
* refine the search:

by logical operators[edit]

OR: match the lines which contains pattern1 OR pattern2^[12]^[13]

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

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
cat file_name | grep -E 'pattern1.*pattern2|pattern2.*pattern1' order dependent

Search text in single plain text file[edit]

Search text in a file

Linux grep command:
- case insensitive^[14]: Using grep -i keyword /path/to/file (Linux ) or enclose it in double quotes if the keywords contains spaces grep -i "keywords contains space" /path/to/file
- case sensitive: grep keyword /path/to/file (Linux )
- show several surrounding lines: grep -C 2 keyword /path/to/file to show 2 lines before and 2 lines after^[15]. (Linux )

vim: (1)vim [options] filename (2)press /keyword (Linux )

cat & grep: cat /path/to/file | grep keyword (Linux )^[16]
- case insensitive: Using cat /path/to/file | grep -i keyword (Linux ) or enclose it in double quotes if the keywords contains spaces cat /path/to/file | grep -i "keywords contains space" e.g. Keyin cat log.txt | grep -i error to matched the line contains error or Error in the file log.txt.
- case sensitive: cat /path/to/file | grep keyword (Linux )

other issues

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

Search text in multiple compressed files[edit]

Switch to the folder & keyin the command find . -name "error*.gz" | xargs zcat | grep "pattern" to search the error*.gz files contains specified pattern ^[17]

Search text in a compressed text file[edit]

zcat & grep: cat /path/to/compressed_text.gz | grep keyword (Linux )^[18]

file name or folder name search[edit]

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:

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

尋找特定檔案類型的檔案

Win dir <路徑><檔案類型> /b/s 例如: dir C:\Users\*.zip /b/s^[19]
Linux ls -R <路徑> | grep <檔名規則> ls -R /home | grep \/zip$^[20]

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]