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   Wilson Pon on August 26th, 2009 at 1:51 am #

   Honestly, I’ve over 150,000 files stored in my hard drive and it’s a painfully task to browse through it! Maybe this little trick is going to help me eliminate the hassle away. Thanks again, Clif.

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   Sriram on August 26th, 2009 at 3:50 am #

   Ultimate work. Thanks for the post.

   Sriram

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   Clif on August 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm #

   Thanks for the comment Wilson. I hope it does help you. If it doesn’t there are a few other tricks that I’m sure I and others here can recommend.

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   Glass Beads on August 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pm #

   Thanks for this tip, I always like the MSDOS tags :)

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   Soumen Halder on October 28th, 2010 at 4:59 am #

   Great job Clif

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     Clif Sipe on October 28th, 2010 at 12:48 pm #

     Thanks Soumen, I appreciate the comment.

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   John-Paul LaBorde on March 23rd, 2011 at 9:07 pm #

   Hey Clif~

   Stumbled upon this post and thought it was just great.
   Got bored and wrote a 30 min AutoHotKey script that will parse through the file you created and allow you to search within the lines in a listview GUI. In other words if you search for “ins” you will get all the lines displayed that have “ins” in them. Then you can right click and choose to run that line or copy it to the clipboard. I know there is Everything by VoidTools which is so much better, but like I said, I got bored. :)

   John-Paul
   apathysoftworks.com

   Here is the script:

   SetBatchLines, -1

   Width := 600
   Height := 600
   ;I have made the menu expandable. Just add the new commands you want delimited by `n with no spaces then create a new label with that name :)
   Menu_Items = Run_Line`nCopy_Line

   Loop, Parse, Menu_Items, `n
   Menu, CTX, Add, %A_LoopField%, OnMenu

   Gui, Add, Edit, vUser_Query w600
   Gui, Add, Button, gSearch, Search
   Gui, Add, ListView, w600 h600 vLV_Content gOn_LVEvent AltSubmit, File Lines
   Gui, Show, , Quick Find
   FileSelectFile, Loaded_File
   FileRead, File_Content, %Loaded_File%
   SplashTextOn, 200, 200, Parsing File, `nPlease wait a moment`n`nIf the file is big it could take a minute or two
   Gui, +Disabled
   Build_List(File_Content)
   Gui, -Disabled
   SplashTextoff
   return

   GuiClose:
   ExitApp
   return

   OnMenu:
   Goto, %A_ThisMenuItem%
   Return

   On_LVEvent:
   Line_Text =
   if (A_GuiEvent = “RightClick”)
   {
   MouseGetPos, X, Y
   LV_GetText(Line_Text, A_EventInfo)
   Menu, CTX, Show, %X%, %Y%
   }
   return

   Run_Line:
   StringReplace, Line_Text, Line_Text, `n, , All
   StringReplace, Line_Text, Line_Text, `r, , All
   Run, %Line_Text%
   return

   Copy_Line:
   StringReplace, Line_Text, Line_Text, `n, , All
   StringReplace, Line_Text, Line_Text, `r, , All
   Clipboard = %Line_Text%
   TrayTip, Copied!, %Line_Text%
   SetTimer, Tray_Off, -4000
   Return

   Tray_Off:
   TrayTip
   return

   Search:
   Critical
   Gui, +Disabled
   SplashTextOn, 200, 200, Parsing File, `nPlease wait a moment`n`nIf the file is big it could take a minute or two
   GuiControlGet, Query, , User_Query
   if (Query = “”)
   search_list := File_Content

   else
   {

   Loop,parse, File_Content,`n,%A_Space%%A_Tab%
   {
   Current_Line := A_LoopField
   tcount =
   tfound =
   loop, parse, Query, %A_Space%,%A_Tab%
   {
   if (A_LoopField = “”)
   return
   tcount++
   if instr( Current_Line, A_LoopField )
   tfound++
   }
   if (tcount == tfound)
   search_list .= Current_Line . “`n”
   }
   Current_Line =
   }
   Build_List(search_list)
   search_list =
   SplashTextoff
   Gui, -Disabled
   return

   Build_List(list) {
   global

   LV_Delete()
   StringReplace, list, list, `r, , All
   Loop, parse, list, `n,%A_Space%%A_Tab%
   {
   if (A_LoopField = “”)
   continue
   LV_Add(“”, A_LoopField)
   }
   LV_ModifyCol(1, “AutoHdr”)
   }

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     John-Paul LaBorde on March 23rd, 2011 at 9:17 pm #

     Hmmm Just realized the script lost all formatting and changed ” to some odd character. Here I just uploaded the file on the site so you can copy it properly:
     http:\\apathysoftworks.com\temp\QuickFind.txt

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       Clif Sipe on March 25th, 2011 at 12:36 am #

       Hi John-Paul – nice idea. Can you compile it and put it out as an EXE file for us to look at? I don’t keep AHK installed. I’ve used it, but never for long.

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