J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , R.Wieser
writes:
John,

I've just did a google for it, and it looks like it only works on
filesnames (not contents) ?

Correct. At that, it's without equal.

And here I am, at times using "dir /s/b {filemask}" because I think its
sometimes better (as it doesn't search /inside/ zipfiles) :-)

(I can't remember if "Everything" looks inside those. I don't _think_ it
does.) Do give "Everything" a try; it's well-behaved, powerful (e. g.
you can sort search results by size or creation date, both of which I've
found useful), and blisteringly fast - granted, I tend to leave it open,
but I've often found what I want with it literally in the time you'd be
typing the "dir /s/b" part.

I think you can specify filters in Agent Ransack.

I might take a look at it, if only because "search" only looks inside
files
it /knows/ are textfiles - but doesn't make clear how it determines that.
In other words: Makes it easy to miss possible hits.

Ofcourse, I've also got a windows port of "grep" handy (1989), which
allows
me to search inside any file. It just complains when it cannot make text
head-or-tails from it. :-)

I too used UNIX back in the day, before Linux (before Linus was born?
No, just checked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds, and
he's 1969). Happy days ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


John

Windows has zipfldr and cabfiles capabilities.

An inverted index can do anything you might want, as long
as it has "search providers" for such formats. (Like, a MSWD
inside a ZIP, might need a copy of Word to cough up a "search
provider" or something. Otherwise, the default encryption
might "protect" the content from indexing.)

Agent Ransack doesn't look inside ZIP files. Their File Locator Pro
probably has more features than the free version.

Everything.exe is only a filename search utility, and it
revels in reading the $MFT. This does not suggest
a ZIP file or CAB file capability.

Grep is relatively useless, because it won't be looking
for both 8 bit (narrow) and 16 bit (Windows wide) characters.
The choices Windows 10 makes when saving text files, is not
helping matters.

You can miss a lot if you're not careful with search.

For specialized searches, I've written simple programs in C
to get what I want. You really can't trust any utility until
you've tested it to satisfaction. They've not all been modified
for all the character set options.

Paul