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dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:26 pm

Can I use TextPad to find files NOT containing a particular string?

schnitzi · Post by **schnitzi** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:42 am

dforrest wrote:Can I use TextPad to find files NOT containing a particular string?

How can you use TextPad to do that? Use it to write a program
that does it.

Seriously, I think that may be the only way...

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:03 am

dforrest wrote:Can I use TextPad to find files NOT containing a particular string?

Find a pc version of grep and add it as a tool to textpad, I believe it's included with the NT or 2K Resource kit, or maybe somewhere on microsoft.com (powertools or powertoys or whatever they call it)
grep -v finds files not containing a certain string.

talleyrand · Post by **talleyrand** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:55 pm

You actually don't even have to do that much work. There is a command on at least Windows 2000 called 'find' find /v "someString" will show every line not containing it.

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:26 pm

talleyrand wrote:You actually don't even have to do that much work. There is a command on at least Windows 2000 called 'find' find /v "someString" will show every line not containing it.

Whoops, forgot about that one. Guess I should have checked my DOS 2.0 command reference

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