Tool for searching part of word in a LOT of txt/html (VERY URGENT)

[Nowhere]

The deal: I have hundreds of txt and html files, some of them quite large (so I'm afraid that Google Desktop Search doesn't catch everything I need). I need a tool that will let me do quick search in all these files, in this manner:

searching for "xam" will bring both "example" and...uhmm, exam, and so on(any other words that follow this...example? )

It is extremelly urgent and important, I'll be very thankfull for help.

PS. The tool should be small, I have only acces to cafe with small download.

[az]

I would have said textpad (www.textpad.com), but that's 2 mb...

[az]

Oh, if it's really just text files, the windows search function should be able to search for strings.

[Wombat]

grep. Google for "grep for windows" to find a windows build (I use cygwin already).

"grep -nrI xam *"
Prints line number, ignores binary files (so it searches text files), and recursively searches files in your directories.

[GNEP]

Used to use something called "Search and Replace 98" or somesuch. Just googled it, and apparently it's still around: http://www.htmlworkshop.com/

V. good, powerful, and friendly to use.

Edit: direct download (350k): http://www.htmlworkshop.com/srhtml98-i30.exe

[MultimediaMan]

I'll second Textpad...It's cousin, Wildedit can also be useful.

of course, a search of all relevant files like this:

@echo off
cd \
mkdir codesearch\scratch
dir /s /b *.htm>c:\codesearch\scratch\htm.log
dir /s /b *.html>c:\codesearch\scratch\html.log
dir /s /b *.txt>c:\codesearch\scratch\text.log
type c:\codesearch\scratch\htm.log>c:\codesearch\fullist.log
type c:\codesearch\scratch\html.log>>c:\codesearch\fullist.log
type c:\codesearch\scratch\text.log>>c:\codesearch\fullist.log
for /f (eol=; tokens=1*; delims=) %%a in (c:\codesearch\fullist.log) do (findstr -l "xam")

Will do the trick (on every stinking *.htm, *.html, and *.txt files in your hard disk): the question is what do you want to do with this information? Do you want to replace parts of the document or merely identify it?

Textpad is likely going to be your solution as it supports Macros.

[TnT]

Agree with Wombat.

grep really is the easiest way to do this. It can handle large files as it doesn't load the whole thing into memory to read it.

[schmosef]

I think that grep is what I used in my Uni days. It was fast and thorough.

[cjolley]

findstr

Well I'll be darned.
Learn something new every day.

[dZeus]

I third grep. Use it all the time for these kind of purposes, and it's very fast & small

[Nowhere]

Thanks for suggestions (and it somehow turned out not that horribly urgent...but still, somewhat). I hope they'll work for me (and I hope I won't have problems with trying them later today while beeing offline - my computer isn't connected to the net unfrotunatelly...)