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  printed zondag 5 september 2010 12:34:57 from www.yoy.be

DirFind

DirFind (~16KB) is a tool I created after using a number of different 'recursive directory' file content searchers (Windows' Search File Containing, Visual/Borland Studio File in Files, ...) and content indexers (Google Desktop, Windows' indexing service...).

All of these tools still lack some feature that hinders you to get the full list of items you're searching. Either you loose the overview of which matches are important and which are not, or you can't specify enough options, or there's not enough data about which file matches why...

So in my personal spirit of re-inventing the wheel I started a new tool from scratch that had as much of the things I want all rolled into one. It's heavily based on Regular Expressions and the directory structure the files are in, but this has poven to be quite a good feature (at least for me). I hope you like it (let me know!)

Thanks to the .Net Framework, the exe's a mere 56KB! (16KB zipped!!!)

There's one feature I added that has saved me a great deal of time. When searching for something in source-code, I found what I really was searching for is in the few lines in the neighbourhood of the matching line. If you double-click the matching line, the few preceding and succeding lines are loaded and added to the overview.

location: freeware
url: http://yoy.be/freeware/DirFind_260.zip
created: 15/03/2007 21:14:18 « modified: 26/04/2010 9:02:08 (diff) weight: 0

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(friendly-url) up down edit   del   created: 15/03/2007 21:19:45 « modified: 15/03/2007 21:19:45 weight: 0
(dirfind)
up down edit   del   created: 16/03/2007 22:58:15 « modified: 16/03/2007 22:58:15 weight: 0
(item on yoy.be homepage) up down edit   del   created: 19/02/2010 21:49:06 « modified: 19/02/2010 21:49:41 weight: 0
Grep is fine, grep is good, but feel free to join the GUI age and find what you're searching for in a single overview.

see also -- Why re-invent the wheel? edit   del   created: 15/03/2007 21:18:43 « modified: 15/03/2007 21:18:43 weight: 0
re-inventing the wheel
see also -- Regular Expressions edit   del   created: 15/03/2007 21:19:11 « modified: 15/03/2007 21:19:11 weight: 0

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