A simple tool to find text files?

Question

I am looking for an open source tool that can be used to search for text files on a local machine. I looked at elasticsearch, but it seems too complicated with more functions than I need.

I need to search only text files on the local machine. I am looking for something that will take the file directory and search string as input, and list the files containing the string. The size of the data is likely to spread across several GBs to hundreds of files, so something that has the ability to index is likely to work best. The simple client-side HTML user interface will be fantastic.

I don't need streaming data, collecting, aggregating multiple servers, web services, supporting multiple files, external databases, etc.

Someone must have done this already. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Edited to add: I'm looking for a library that can be integrated into another client application. The local search interface is lucene / elasticsearch / etc, which does not require a web server or database.

Answer 1

If you want to search for text files in several directories. Notepad ++ can do the job.

Answer 2

The Ransack agent is my favorite — it will use multiple threads, and it can optionally use regular expression patterns to search for files.

Answer 3

Although it only works with an individual search for each file, Ack might be worth a look.

Answer 4

Now I use the text search tool --- TEXT FIND . This is a simple and free tool to search for all types of files on your PC, just a few seconds can be done!

Answer 5

Sometimes I found a local text search tool, this is AnyTXT Searcher. Simple and practical. You need to know everything, AnyTXT is like your brother. You can try it and you will like it if you like everything, it is highly recommended. AnyTXT Searcher