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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 )

Thanks in advance

Edit/PS:
This is TextMate (Mac):

Edit 2:
Dear Wise Admins, I swear I also have win10! (anyway who cares? This thread should be interesting anyway)

TextReplace, link2, link3 (help)
Trying to do this on PureBasic.
video

Thanks!

I searched a bit more, and CSearcher also seems to be a very good, fast non-indexing one!

Anyway dnGrep has what I wanted and seems very good too!
Cannot test dnGrep speed now; I'm on Mac

dnGrep = 75 Mb?

How about www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep ?

246KB

I once liked the "Search and Replace" program, but it's paid, so I made an analog of that program. It's concise, there's nothing superfluous, no distracting elements.

More from the paid ones: PowerGREP, TextPipe

This Forum upsets me: I'm old, but there's always something new to learn

Jokes apart, I wish win had "unix tools" by default like Mac does…

Anyway that's not a big problem for me: 99% of the times I turn on my PC is to show neighbor kids great old games…

Piero wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 12:46 pm Jokes apart, I wish win had "unix tools" by default like Mac does…

Just install MSYS2 on Windows. Under .\usr\bin there are a lot of unix tools like grep, cat, ls, ...

chi wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:08 pmMSYS2

Thanks!
Did you see other stuff like cygwin etc.? Is MSYS2 better?
I think it's good to have "unix" under your fingers…

Edit/PS:
try some "advanced piping" stuff (like do something on video's audio with ffmpeg and then remux, all on the same "command line"): if it works well, then it's well done

Piero wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:14 pm

chi wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:08 pmMSYS2

Thanks!
Did you see other stuff like cygwin etc.? Is MSYS2 better?
I think it's good to have "unix" under your fingers…

I personally recommend WSL, I use windows as my host but spend 80% of my life in Linux via WSL. I just SSH in via PuTTY because I don't like the default terminal.
In fact, most of my PB forum posts, this one included, have been written and posted from within WSL, using Edbrowse.

Piero wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:14 pm

chi wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:08 pmMSYS2

Thanks!
Did you see other stuff like cygwin etc.? Is MSYS2 better?
I think it's good to have "unix" under your fingers…

I used MSYS2 to get clang and mingw64. But with winlibs I also get GCC, so I switched. Also had troubles with newer versions of MSYS2 on Win7. Only keeping MSYS2 for the unix tools . Don't know if cygwin is better or not...

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 , no piping) it worked well

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

246KB

This (and the companion program BareTail) are AMAZING pieces of software!
Thank you for pointing them out.