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Use built-in Windows functionality to find a string of text in a directory.
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Search Files with Git Grep.ps1
# Can only be run within a Git repository, but this will also search untracked files, as well as those that are tracked.
git grep --untracked '<term>'
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Search Files.bat
REM From https://stackoverflow.com/a/13799990/11912
findstr /s "<term>" *.item
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Search Files.ps1
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.item | select-string "<term>"
gci -r -i *.item | select-string "<term>"
gci -r -i *.* -exclude *.dll,*.xml | select-string "<term>"
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