Guest Joel Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that will search the contents of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried to search using wildcard charecters but apparently the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use or a better way to use desktop search. Jason
Guest Dups Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 RE: Windows Desktop Search I might be understanding this wrong but does he have a bunch of documents and he wants to find out which documents have ###-##-#### in them? If so I believe a solution would be to use Windows' normal search option, select all files and folders, then use the "A word or phrase in the file:" option. Put in the serial number in there and select the folder than contains the documents. This will have Windows search for the SSN within all the documents and it will give you the results of each document that contains the SSN searched. "Joel" wrote: > Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that will search the contents > of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme > xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried to search using wildcard charecters but apparently > the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use > or a better way to use desktop search. > > Jason
Guest Joel Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 RE: Windows Desktop Search I need to find documents with any SSN not a specific SSN. "Dups" wrote: > I might be understanding this wrong but does he have a bunch of documents and > he wants to find out which documents have ###-##-#### in them? > > If so I believe a solution would be to use Windows' normal search option, > select all files and folders, then use the "A word or phrase in the file:" > option. Put in the serial number in there and select the folder than contains > the documents. This will have Windows search for the SSN within all the > documents and it will give you the results of each document that contains the > SSN searched. > > > "Joel" wrote: > > > Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that will search the contents > > of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme > > xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried to search using wildcard charecters but apparently > > the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use > > or a better way to use desktop search. > > > > Jason
Guest Dups Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 RE: Windows Desktop Search Ahhh, in that case I am not certain sorry. "Joel" wrote: > I need to find documents with any SSN not a specific SSN. > > "Dups" wrote: > > > I might be understanding this wrong but does he have a bunch of documents and > > he wants to find out which documents have ###-##-#### in them? > > > > If so I believe a solution would be to use Windows' normal search option, > > select all files and folders, then use the "A word or phrase in the file:" > > option. Put in the serial number in there and select the folder than contains > > the documents. This will have Windows search for the SSN within all the > > documents and it will give you the results of each document that contains the > > SSN searched. > > > > > > "Joel" wrote: > > > > > Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that will search the contents > > > of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme > > > xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried to search using wildcard charecters but apparently > > > the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use > > > or a better way to use desktop search. > > > > > > Jason
Guest Bob I Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Windows Desktop Search Download and install AgentRansack and use the following as the search text. [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] Joel wrote: > Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that will search the contents > of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme > xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried to search using wildcard charecters but apparently > the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use > or a better way to use desktop search. > > Jason
Guest reclusive monkey Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Windows Desktop Search On 7 Sep, 13:52, Joel <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Ok....I was asked by my boss to find a software that willsearchthe contents > of docuements for Social Security Numbers. All the SSN#'s are in the scheme > xxx-xx-xxxx. I have tried tosearchusing wildcard charecters but apparently > the (-) is a wildcard symbol. Does anyone know of a diffrent software to use > or a better way to usedesktopsearch. > > Jason You can achieve this, but you will have to use cygwin. You can then "egrep" for the social security pattern in files. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?egrep
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