Sunday, August 12, 2007 4:35 PM
So I needed to search for a particular term within a set of files in a directory, which contained sub-directories of files. I figured this would be an easy feat given Vista's much-touted search functionality (or what seemed to be much touted...I seemed to think that search was a huge improvement in the OS anyway).
However, it appears that Vista will do a great job searching the name of files and folders based on your criteria, but there didn't seem to be a way to search files CONTAINING a particular search string. I was a little bummed...more peeved actually.
After a few quick Google hits, I came across Agent Ransack, a freeware program that is awesome for performing searches for terms located within files...including a preview of the line of text within the file containing the term.
Sorry Vista, you let me down on this one.
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