Search inside text improvement

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SkyFrontier
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Search inside text improvement

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Can we have XYplorer to "find/contents" showing results a) all; b) first "x" occurrences; c) to NOT show strings containg "y" value (ex. "htm"); d) all previous with option to show first "x" lines or all text that contains such string?

The better solution I've found so far (and searched everywhere 4 years ago for a better replacement with no satisfying results) is PowerDesk's Finder tool. Annoying if you have thousands of results (try to look for a file that matches an .htm path name and you'll have an idea...) to look for, but more reliable than my ages faithful X1 Desktop Search (second best - limitation: cached results only...).

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Re: Search inside text improvement

Post by admin »

This would be too much for the UI, but you can achieve this functionality and more using scripting. E.g. you would read in the file contents, do your matching, and then tag the file on match. Then you would list all tagged files.

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