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honey the codewitch8-Jan-23 14:53
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Dan Sutton9-Jan-23 6:30
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GeneralRecursively Searching for "text" in files in windows 11 Pin
jmaida7-Jan-23 18:10
jmaida7-Jan-23 18:10 
This rather plain vanilla operation in terms of a user view point is surprising complicated in Windows.
This is used to be easy to do using grep or some version of it.
Hey, Microsoft how about this command

search for "text" in all text files "on my disk"
and I mean that simple.
No ??..xxgreppx */*/.*(*dmmd
Grrrr.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger

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