Searcher

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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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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doug4907 Posted 2023-03-24

Great little program that serves me well

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Edited 2023-09-21

Thank you doug4907. Glad you find it useful.
srgrass Posted 2020-10-16

Thank you very much for the free open source program!

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Posted 2023-09-21

You're welcome srgrass
srgrass Posted 2020-10-16

Thank you very much for the free open source program!
mrkaban Posted 2020-06-24

Thank you for a good program under a free license! Not enough doc and rtf support!

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

Programming Language

Related Categories

C# Search Software, C# Grep Tool

Registered

2018-06-19

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