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Re: Windows Search

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Can someone please suggest a good free "file finder" for windows (10)?
Not an "indexing" one, but a well-done regexp thing that can also search inside text files, collect the matching lines etc. (hope I was clear :oops: )
Search only:
- Internal Search of filemanagers: TC (Total Commander), XY (https://www.xyplorer.com/) or DO (Directory Opus).
Note: TC and DO can use Everything database if installed.
Search, Collect, Replace:
- PowerGrep Expensive, quite difficult to start with, but saves a lot of time (no need to write a program or use large ETL software).
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Re: Windows Search

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Marc56us wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:05 pm :wink:
I forgive you, because that's not free stuff, but useful info anyway :?
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Re: Windows Search

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Piero wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:36 pm
Quin wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:20 pmWSL
Please read my edit on post above (piping) did you try? Does it work well?

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 17#p630717

When I tried (ffmpeg 6 win10 64) the audio was horrible, but if I did it in 2 passages, via intermediate audio file (with a .bat :mrgreen: , no piping) it worked well
I mean it's literally just a Linux VM, so pipes work as they do in any standard Linux distro. The only slight bit of weirdness with pipes is that if you want to be able to pipe to Windows executables from within a screen, you have to start the screen from within WSL and then attach to it over SSH or whatever, you can't start the screen session remotely. Other than that very minor and very easy to avoid issue though, it works great!
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Re: Windows Search

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Cyllceaux wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 10:56 am How about www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep ?
246KB :wink:
What about this?

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grep -Iron Fred
;)
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Re: Windows Search

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Piero wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:29 am What about this?

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grep -Iron Fred
;)
I... I... I don't know why I read "grab iron fred"... And I really really hard tried to understand what an iron fred is and why I had to grab them :oops:
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Re: Windows Search

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Cyllceaux wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:13 pm:oops:
What about

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grep -Iron Fred | grab Fred
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Re: Windows Search

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I hope the part right to pipe is not German. :?
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:D
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Regular expressions

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For whomever may be interested: PowerGREP manual in PDF format includes a detailed tutorial and reference to regular expressions.
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Re: Windows Search

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isn't that what Total Commander does :?: :?:

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