How to search 1000+ lines, same syntax and words in hundreds of TXT files
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I’m looking for the same line/syntax/word in a stack of files how to.
For example:
I have hundreds of .txt files in a folder:
D:\data\files… *.txtAnd I have hundreds of lines/syntax/words in a file at:
C:\Users\Myusername\Desktop\wordlist-need-to-file.txt
With the following contents…chicken
boss
joss
help
john123
ish12c8kk38
zebra787
…
…more than 1000 lines all in one file.
Well my question, how do I find the same thousands of lines/syntax/words in a folder with thousands of txt files in D:\data\files… *.txt
So far I only use the “Search in Files” method with “Regular Expression” can only search 20-40 lines/syntax/words with the search method word1|word2|word3|word4 and so on.
can anyone understand my question and how i search for matching words in a stack of txt files with a file containing over 1000 lines, syntax and words?
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Notepad++ itself isn’t going to be the best tool for that.
Perhaps a different search utility but actually I can’t think of one that will do that.
If it were me, I would resort to programming a solution. That could be done “inside” Notepad++ using the PythonScript plugin if you’d like.
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@alan-kilborn
How to do it, of course I want and I’m very grateful for it -
@saipul-bakri
Try Agent Ransack freeware with registration or the paid version. Does exactly that, i use now and again. Searches documents or files for stuff and reports and can hot link open those documents.
Many options and will scan lots files quickly. However it takes a few seconds to do the scan.
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/Now i am the new google for you!
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Thank you for your recommendation @minsikau . I’ll start with the free version first. If this is what I need I will buy it
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@minsikau How do I search using this Agent Ransack for my problem above?
I’m confused how to add my wordlist.txt list to search for the same word in a stack of files in a folder -
It’s hard to tell whether that recommendation was offered with an understanding of your problem prompting that the other application was a good fit, or whether the user was just doing a knee-jerk software recommendation.
But either way, that application is a completely separate application, unaffiliated with Notepad++, and this Notepad++ Community forum is thus not the right place for getting help with that application; you would have to find somewhere else appropriate for getting help with that application.
If you are still interested in the Notepad++ with PythonScript plugin solution, let us know, the next time Alan logs in, he may be able to offer more advice on how to get that working.
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@peterjones said in How to search 1000+ lines, same syntax and words in hundreds of TXT files:
If you are still interested in the Notepad++ with PythonScript plugin solution, let us know, the next time Alan logs in, he may be able to offer more advice on how to get that working.
I thought some more about this, and I don’t think it is on-topic enough for Notepad++ in order to pursue it here. While a PythonScript could be written to do this, it is really unrelated to Notepad++ and is just plain Python, making it a better topic for some other forum.
