Windows File Explorer search not finding text in files that is obviously there

[Guest BitEngineer]

After looking at the numerous inquiries about how to make this work and being unsuccessful, and not wanting to waste a lot of time trying to make it work, I resorted to using the following MS-DOS command:FOR /F %i IN ('FINDSTR /M "string-to-be-searched" *.txt *.tmp') DO Notepad.exe "%i"This command will open each file containing the search argument with Notepad. Of course, it will only work if the target files contain plain text.Change "string-to-be-searched" to your desired search argument. You can use regular expressions by specifying the /R switch on the FINDSTR command. (See Microsoft

 

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