find file containing text inside the file

SAnton;1173442 Wrote:
> > pacinitaly;1173379 Wrote:
> > > > SAnton;1173259 Wrote:
> > > Imagine the folowing situation: I downloaded .zip-archive with thouzands
> > > of .php-files. I unpacked the file to the folder at my Desktop (which is
> > > indexed by default). I want to find all files containing string «Test».
> > > So, I added «Plain text filter» to the .php files extension in the
> > > indexing settings. Should I wait hours until the indexing will be done?
> > > Or I can just search (more slowly)? I tryed and did not get any results!
> > > So, I will wait. It's very annoying!
> > >
> > > Another case: I want to find files containing Russian word
> > > «Привет». The problem is that that
> > > word can be encoded by different bytes depending on codepage (most
> > > popular are cp1251, UTF-8, KOI8-R). I tested text search and found that
> > > if BOM present at the start of the file, file considered UTF-8,
> > > otherwise file considered cp1251. But how about UTF-8 files which do not
> > > have BOM mark at the beginning? When I program PHP I always remove BOM,
> > > because othervise these BOMs are sended to the user-agent by server.
> > > Notepad application still detects UTF-8 in such files, but Search is not
> > > (see attached files). Also, how about KOI8? I didn't find any way to
> > > specify encoding in search options.
> > >
> > > Third case: how about different word forms in Russian? «One day» =
> > > «Один день», «Three
> > > days» = «Три дня», «Five days» =
> > > «Пять дней», «All these
> > > days» = «Все эти
> > > дни»,... How I will find
> > > «день» («day») with all possible forms?
> > >
> > > It's a pity that Windows text search is completely useless. :(> > > >
> >
> > love the post!!!
> >
> > try 'Super Finder 1.5.3.0 Free Download'
> > (http://freemedia.realgage.com/super-finder-1530.html)> >
>
> I have tryed Super Finder. It fast, perform real content search. That
> is good.
>
> First I tryed it on my folder with 300 PHP-files (don't worry, these
> files are English-only). It found 3 files compared to the 1 file found
> by Vista using the same search query. That is very strange: it looks
> like Vista Search is approximate and unreliable. Imagine that your
> boss required you to find all files containing "bucks" and replace
> these by "dollars". Failed to perform this task may result in serious
> consequences for you.
>
> The bad thing is that Russian text was found only in CP1251-encoded
> text files. UTF-8 files (with and without BOM) are ignored. I tryed to
> check «unicode» checkbox in the Super Finder, but in that case I got
> zero results. This is worse than Vista search, which at least can
> recognise UTF-8 by BOM.


sorry:(


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