Please recommend best Search Prog

filthy-mcnasty · Sep 28, 2005

I want a search tool that can find both text AND unicode strings, and also
display found strings for consideration before committing myself to any
filing/sorting. At present I can either find/view text strings only, or I
can find but not view text AND unicode strings. This means I am usually
obliged to search at least twice. And Windows XP search is totally
inadequate and slow. Don't want Google DeskTop Search or equivalent as
these tend to be too resource hungry for the small jobs I have in mind -
Usually looking for copyright strings in Fonts

Many thanks

jmatt · Sep 28, 2005

GridinSoft Notepad Lite
http://www.dissoft.com/_development_17.html
Highlighting more than 50 formats of files! (HTML, ASP, PHP, Perl,
C/C++..) Build-in Spell Checker, UNICODE, Print preview, Bookmarks,
export the text with highlighting to RTF, HTML and LaTeX format,
support many character sets, evaluate math expressions, regular
expressions, the adjusted interface ,support file format for Windows,
Unix, MacOS

If you want to calculate a simple expression, use GS Notepad
built-in calculator to get the answer quickly.

You can use available patterns for search URL, e-mails or phones or to
write the regular expressions for search of the necessary information.

jmatt · Sep 28, 2005

And some more.

BinText
http://www.foundstone.com/knowledge/proddesc/bintext.html

ConTEXT
http://www.context.cx/index.html

TED Notepad
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/

XVI32
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download

filthy-mcnasty · Sep 28, 2005

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GridinSoft Notepad Lite

Thanks for this and your other reply. Downloading a couple now. However,
I should have been clearer - What I'd like to do is feed the tool a
whole folder at a time (A whole folder tree ideally) - Some folders
contain 5,000 files or more - and end up with a list of the found
strings. A GUI would be nice, but a CLI would do if it could be run in
batch mode. Right now I've a backlog of over 100,000 items to look at,
and one at a time would take forever

I'm not smart enough for the various flavours of GREP unfortunately,
unless you know of one with a Windows Shell/Interface and documentation
that is comprehensible to the braindead. The number of switches in GREP
is frightening, and it took me months just to get used to the relative
simplicity of ARJ and PKZip back in the days of DOS so I've no chance
with anything too complex

Hoping BinText might be the one, but NotePad Lite will come very handy
for another job I'm doing, judging by the specs on the WebSite

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jmatt · Sep 28, 2005

Here are a few more to look at, may suit.

Diff
http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html

Differential
http://www.teammukippe.com/homesite/index.php?styl=s0
ftp://ftp.teammukippe.com/differential.zip
Differential is an application, which provides users with the following
functionalities: - Comparing two directories and putting the difference
into another directory - Comparing two directories and putting the
difference into one big file - DLF - Creation of DIT file which
contains all the information read from one directory - Comparing DIT
against another directory and putting the difference into the third
directory - Decompression of DLF file into tree structure DLF contains
all the data, and should be treated as a library. DIT is : Difference
Information Table which contains all information about a file, but it
does not contain any of its content. Supported platforms: Windows
95/98/NT4/2000 Differential is a fully functional 32-bit application
and won't run in a 16-bit environment. No other special requirements
exist.

ExamDiff
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiffpro

FileSync
http://www.fileware.co.uk/products.htm

KDiff3
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

Quick Compare
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=quickcompare
Quick Compare allows you to compare either 2 files, or complete folders
in a matter of seconds, and have the results put in a third folder of
your choosing.
Quick Compare however, is not a full blown compare utility, it does not
come with the bells and whistles of such programs as Microsoft's
WinDiff™.
How does this file compare work?
Quick Compare takes the text from file 1 and compares it to file 2. If
the text in file one is not found in file 2, then the text not found is
exported to the Output file for your perusal.
Why does comparing folders only return difference in file size's in the
results?
That is actually what it was intended to do.

Side-by-Side
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=101&cat=008
http://www.galaxywebsitedesign.com/sideby/index.html
Side-by-Side does what its name implies -- it puts two texts
side-by-side so that you can compare. Imagine you have two version of
the same code. One version is from yesturday's backup and today's
version is .... well from today. Something went wrong and the code is
behaving funny. Using Side-by-Side it's a little easier to scan for
what may be different in the two source files.

WinMerge
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
An Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32
platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between
project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Duddits · Sep 28, 2005

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Thanks for this and your other reply. Downloading a couple now. However,
I should have been clearer - What I'd like to do is feed the tool a
whole folder at a time (A whole folder tree ideally) - Some folders
contain 5,000 files or more - and end up with a list of the found
strings. A GUI would be nice, but a CLI would do if it could be run in
batch mode. Right now I've a backlog of over 100,000 items to look at,
and one at a time would take forever

I'm not smart enough for the various flavours of GREP unfortunately,
unless you know of one with a Windows Shell/Interface and documentation
that is comprehensible to the braindead. The number of switches in GREP
is frightening, and it took me months just to get used to the relative
simplicity of ARJ and PKZip back in the days of DOS so I've no chance
with anything too complex

Hoping BinText might be the one, but NotePad Lite will come very handy
for another job I'm doing, judging by the specs on the WebSite

Have you tried Agent Ransack?
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

regards

Dud

John Fitzsimons · Sep 29, 2005

GridinSoft Notepad Lite
http://www.dissoft.com/_development_17.html
Highlighting more than 50 formats of files! (HTML, ASP, PHP, Perl,
C/C++..) Build-in Spell Checker, UNICODE, Print preview, Bookmarks,
export the text with highlighting to RTF, HTML and LaTeX format,
support many character sets, evaluate math expressions, regular
expressions, the adjusted interface ,support file format for Windows,
Unix, MacOS

If you want to calculate a simple expression, use GS Notepad
built-in calculator to get the answer quickly.

You can use available patterns for search URL, e-mails or phones or to
write the regular expressions for search of the necessary information.

According to ;

http://notepad.gridinsoft.com/can.php

"You can use regular expression engine only in Professional version."

.....................

P.S. Don't forget to let me know if you ever come across a GUI program
that can spell check a directory of HTML files. In one go. :-)

Regards, John.
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filthy-mcnasty · Sep 29, 2005

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Have you tried Agent Ransack?
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Looks like a goody. Downloading now. Thankyou

filthy-mcnasty · Sep 29, 2005

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Here are a few more to look at, may suit.

Not quite what I had in mind, but very useful for other WIP. Downloading
now, with thanks

Mostly searching for strings in binary files, most of which are
ambiguous as to origin/copyright (Fonts largely). Have been using the
search module within the free version of PowerDesk. This unfortunately
does not do unicode, but does allow viewing of all strings found. I also
use the shareware Efficient File Search - Unicode or text, but no
viewing. Unfortunately many commercial fonts out there have been
tinkered with over the years, so a search for the "owner" may in fact
yield quite other info which, without a string view function, may result
in quite the wrong result. Don't want the "Font Police" getting upset,
even though copyright on fonts is in itself ambiguous depending on the
origin/user-location

On fonts and freeware - FWIW the "Font Police" seem to take the laissez-
faire approach so long as the downloaders from alt.binaries.fonts and
alt.binaries.fonts.floods are reasonably discreet and don't try to sell
their collections or put them to commercial use. Having said which, this
is no guarantee that a man from the foundry will not get the conniptions
if one of his fonts finds it's way into the various download sources,
and I have no wish to contravene their wishes or steal their dinner-
money. So search I must, if only for my own peace of mind

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Duddits · Sep 29, 2005

Looks like a goody. Downloading now. Thankyou

Let us know if that does what you wish.

regards

Dud

filthy-mcnasty · Oct 1, 2005

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Let us know if that does what you wish.

Thanks Dud. It doesn't quite, but it comes closer than any other free
program I've found yet. You're definitely not dud, Dud

And thanks again for tolerating that abysmal pun

jmatt · Oct 1, 2005

filthy-mcnasty · Oct 1, 2005

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Here some more to look at filthy-mcnasty

Well, that's my weekend sorted very satisfactorily. Thankyou, and thanks
also to everyone else who has answered my query

Have a nice one

datamystic · Oct 2, 2005

You need TextPipe Pro (www.datamystic.com) - it handles Unicode and
ANSI text, has a GUI and CLI, and will process millions of files in one
batch. It also has a groovy EasyPattern language for doing pattern
matching with - just like English.

filthy-mcnasty · Oct 2, 2005

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You need TextPipe Pro (www.datamystic.com)

Another huge thankyou. This has been a most rewarding request

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