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Description
This utility is intended to help in search/grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types. It mainly supports the ASCII and UNICODE file formats.
Main features
- Search multiple directories for multiple content based on multiple file extensions.
- Allows searching in Word (docx), Excel (xlsx), Powerpoint (pptx) and PDF (pdf) documents.
- Allow searching in archives - .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar and .gz
- Page numbers in Word (docx) may not be exact using OpenXML(see http://officeopenxml.com/WPsection.php)
- Search using regular expressions.
- Shows list of files that were searched.
- Exclude files/directories from being searched in the current session or always.
- Open text files in preferred editor.
- Navigate to file location in explorer.
- Quickly view file content in a popup.
- Advanced configuration allows changing backcolour and displaying search execution times.
- Customise the UI based on settings in the preferences file (if set)
- No installer. Setup / installation not required.