From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2006-08-23T03:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to search Ruby files in Windows


On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Phrogz wrote:

> The Windows Way might be to use the Find command (Windows-F) and enter
> content type in "A word or phrase in the file". Bleah.
>
> What I do is use my little "findfile" ruby script (code below) from  
> the
> command line. It's sort of like a grep utility that allows you to use
> regexps as a filter for file names, and as a content searcher. For
> example
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\gavin.kistner\Desktop>findfile rbw?$ "def
> \S+awl"
> ./ReArchive/Archive/dircrawl.rb
>         def self.crawl ( path, level=0 )
>
> Found 1 file (out of 7510) in 2.765 seconds
>

Thanks Phrogz, I'll pass it on right now.
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