This utility is intended to help in search or grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types.

For help/usage, see the wiki page: https://sourceforge.net/p/searcher/wiki/Home/

Features

  • Search multiple directories for multiple content based on multiple file extensions.
  • Allows searching in Word (docx), Excel (xlsx), Powerpoint (pptx) and PDF (pdf) documents.
  • Allow searching in archives - .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar and .gz
  • Page numbers in Word (docx) may not be exact using OpenXML(see http://officeopenxml.com/WPsection.php)
  • Search using regular expressions.
  • Shows list of files that were searched.
  • Exclude files/directories from being searched in the current session or always.
  • Open text files in preferred editor.
  • Navigate to file location in explorer.
  • Quickly view file content in a popup.
  • Advanced configuration allows changing backcolour and displaying search execution times.
  • Customise the UI based on settings in the preferences file (if set)
  • No installer. Setup / installation not required.

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Categories

Search, Grep

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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User Reviews

  • Great little program that serves me well
    Reply from Searcher
    Edited 2023-09-21
    Thank you doug4907. Glad you find it useful.
  • Thank you very much for the free open source program!
    Reply from Searcher
    Posted 2023-09-21
    You're welcome srgrass
  • Thank you very much for the free open source program!
  • Thank you for a good program under a free license! Not enough doc and rtf support!
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

Programming Language

C#

Related Categories

C# Search Software, C# Grep Tool

Registered

2018-06-19