Search Within Files

Danger Phoenix · 9 Mar 2011 at 12:34

Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to search within a bunch of text files for any words in a list which are stored in another text file?

Danger Phoenix · 9 Mar 2011 at 14:27

I basically want to end up with a list of words which are not in any of those files

Danger Phoenix · 9 Mar 2011 at 22:36

Cheers for that SiriusB. I will give it a try when I get to work tomorrow

Danger Phoenix · 10 Mar 2011 at 06:55

SiriusB said:
I assume you have used PowerShell before. If not let me know and I will write the couple of steps you need to do. I would link to a post where ive explained it before, but can't find any!

I have never used it before, so any help would be great please

Danger Phoenix · 10 Mar 2011 at 10:04

I had to set the security to Unrestricted (found this out with a bit of Googling) and I changed it to search in *.xml files. It is running now and taking up 50% of CPU... been like that for a few minutes now, so lets see what happens

Danger Phoenix · 10 Mar 2011 at 10:36

SiriusB... I love you!

Danger Phoenix · 10 Mar 2011 at 10:55

There were about 500 files... and after 5 minutes of processing it was done. I only have a 3GHz Pentium 4 CPU at work, so it would have been a lot faster if it was any good. I also set it to output the results to a text file.

You have saved me about 2 days of work, because I do not have to run a search for each of the 200 words manually