Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing [closed] Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing [closed] windows windows

Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing [closed]


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

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There is also a Windows built-in program called findstr.exe with which you can search within files.

>findstr /s "provider=sqloledb" *.cs


Original Answer

Windows Grep does this really well.

Edit: Windows Grep is no longer being maintained or made available by the developer. An alternate download link is here: Windows Grep - alternate

Current Answer

Visual Studio Code has excellent search and replace capabilities across files. It is extremely fast, supports regex and live preview before replacement.

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