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
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