Windows has quite a few useful utilities for searching text. The findstr utility allows searching through a folder full of text files for a certain string.
Here is an example.
>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* |
And this is how to search for text strings in a folder.
E:\shadowofchernobyl\gamedata>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* scripts\dialogs.script: game_stats.money_quest_update (num) scripts\dialogs.script: game_stats.money_quest_update (-num) scripts\treasure_manager.script: game_stats.money_quest_update(deadmoney) |
This works very well and it quite useful when coding, you can find a certain variable you are looking for very quickly.
I can even use wildcards to find an entry that ends in numbers.
E:\shadowofchernobyl\gamedata>findstr /S /R "megafon_music_[0-9]" *.* scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_1]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_2]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_3]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_4]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_5]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_6]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_7]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_8]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_9]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_10]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_11]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_12]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_13]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_14]], scripts\sound_theme.script: [[characters_voice\scenario\megafon\megafon_music_15]]} |
So, this is a very useful utility for Windows users, with the /R parameter, it is recursive and will find all instances of the search query in subfolders of the parent directory.
Use the /? parameter to get help.
E:\shadowofchernobyl\gamedata>findstr.exe /? Searches for strings in files. FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file] [/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]] strings [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]] /B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line. /E Matches pattern if at the end of a line. /L Uses search strings literally. /R Uses search strings as regular expressions. /S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories. /I Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive. /X Prints lines that match exactly. /V Prints only lines that do not contain a match. /N Prints the line number before each line that matches. /M Prints only the filename if a file contains a match. /O Prints character offset before each matching line. /P Skip files with non-printable characters. /OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set. /A:attr Specifies color attribute with two hex digits. See "color /?" /F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console). /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string. /G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console). /D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories strings Text to be searched for. [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search. Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed with /C. For example, 'FINDSTR "hello there" x.y' searches for "hello" or "there" in file x.y. 'FINDSTR /C:"hello there" x.y' searches for "hello there" in file x.y. Regular expression quick reference: . Wildcard: any character * Repeat: zero or more occurrences of previous character or class ^ Line position: beginning of line $ Line position: end of line [class] Character class: any one character in set [^class] Inverse class: any one character not in set [x-y] Range: any characters within the specified range \x Escape: literal use of metacharacter x \<xyz Word position: beginning of word xyz\> Word position: end of word For full information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Command Reference. |