Windows – How to search contents of files in folder

file searchfindsearchwindows 7windows xp

In Win 7, how can I search for a word in the contents of all files in a specific folder.

In XP this was easy. All you had to do was type the word into the "A word or phrase in file" text box on the search window and it would only include files containing that word in the search results.

Best Answer

Findstr may fit if you are familiar with Windows command line, findstr is some kind of grep for Windows, and it comes with Windows starting version XP. Personally Im using bash for windows, and grep inside of that, but this is third party software, and do not comes with Windows by default. Example of findstr: enter image description here

\s searches for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories

2>nul is to get rid of errors for files that you cannot open

Related Question