Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing

search full-text-search text-files
kitsune picture kitsune · Nov 25, 2008 · Viewed 363.3k times · Source

I have to change some connection strings in an incredibly old legacy application, and the programmers who made it thought it would be a great idea to plaster the entire app with connection strings all over the place.

Visual Studio's "current project" search is incredible slow, and I don't trust Windows Search.

So, what's the best free, non-indexed text search tool out there? All it should do is return a list with files that contain the wanted string inside a folder and its subfolders.

I'm running Windows 2003 Server.

Answer

BQ. picture BQ. · Nov 25, 2008

I'm a fan of the Find-In-Files dialog in Notepad++. Bonus: It's free.

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