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About the Project

A small and fast tool to find a search term in text, pdf or Microsoft Office files. Created with Rider/Visual Studio and .NET 8

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To avoid for example to open big files in the preview window or search just for a limited range of files I added some settings:

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Download

Just download the zip file and extract it somewhere. There is no setup file.

Download (latest version): [https://github.com/lukas-adrian/FindInFiles/releases/download/2025.05.26.12/FindInFiles-2025.05.26.12.zip)

Additional libraries

All libraries links are listed in the plugin folders in the README

PlugIns Example

See: FindInFiles.PlugIns

To create some plugin just reference PlugInBase and inherit from ISearchInFolderPlugIn. You can use my plugIn SearchInTextFilesKMP as a template

  public Task<List<FileSearchEventArgs>> SearchInFolder(
     List<String> lstAllFiles,
     String searchTerm,
     bool matchCase,
     bool wholeWord,
     IProgress<Int32> progress,
     CancellationToken cancellationToken);
  • path, is the folder path where you will search for the files
  • extension, extension of the files. Just one extension because in the application is a loop for multiple extensions
  • searchTerm, some text
  • searchTerm, some search term
  • matchCase, match case only
  • progress, is for the waiting bar
  • cancellationToken, for cancelling

Ideas/ToDo's

  • (todo) add more PlugIns like PDF, Office Documents, etc
  • (idea) export of the results (csv, txt, clipboard, etc. no ideas yet)
  • (idea) treeview, add some columns for filesize and amount of results
  • (idea) Tabs (I don't like that idea anymore)
  • (todo) change the design like files in a different color, dark theme, etc
  • (todo) add optional page number and not only row number for PDFs
  • (todo) expand the tree is too slow if there are a lot of nodes
  • (todo) searching in multiple folder. Still not sure if I will add multiple folder as a group into the history or each?
  • (todo) PlugIns including PreViewWindow like TextFiles + TextPreViewWindow, PDF + PDF PreViewWindow
  • (idea) optional profiles for the history (Every Profile has a different history?). Not sure about that idea

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.