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    • Saipul Bakri
      Saipul Bakri last edited by

      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… *.txt

      And 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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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Saipul Bakri last edited by

        @saipul-bakri

        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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        • Saipul Bakri
          Saipul Bakri @Alan Kilborn last edited by

          @alan-kilborn
          How to do it, of course I want and I’m very grateful for it

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          • minsikau
            minsikau @Saipul Bakri last edited by

            @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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            • Saipul Bakri
              Saipul Bakri @minsikau last edited by

              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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              • Saipul Bakri
                Saipul Bakri @minsikau last edited by

                @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

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                • PeterJones
                  PeterJones @Saipul Bakri last edited by

                  @saipul-bakri ,

                  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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                  • Alan Kilborn
                    Alan Kilborn @PeterJones last edited by

                    @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.

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