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Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.
At 05:17 AM 6/21/2007, Paul Seed wrote:
I am running Stata version 9.2 (fully updated) on a Dell Latitude with
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1 build 2600)..
Whenever I open Windows explorer & try to search for a do file, containing a
particular piece of text, no files are found. This is so however many
do files there actualy are with the relevant text. This does not affect any
other file type; indeed changing the extension to (e.g.) txt "solves" the
problem, and files can then be found. . But changing the
extensions on all my
do files to something else is not feasible even as a work-around.
[...]
Several people have given useful suggestions. I will tell how I
handle this. I do it the old-fashioned way -- in the command prompt
using the -find- command. (And I never had the problem Paul
mentioned; I wasn't even aware of it.) I may be out-of-date, but to
me this is an example of how modern user-interfaces have become so
complex that they cause more problems than they solve.
In the Windows command prompt, type
help find
to learn about it.
In a typical usage, I might type
find "mytext" *.do
Note that is is, by default, case-sensitive, which is okay if you are
searching for Stata variable names. For a case-insensitive search,
use the /i switch.
find /i "mytext" *.do
If the resulting output is long, you can use -more-:
find "mytext" *.do |more
Or you can direct the output:
find "mytext" *.do >aaa
where aaa either does not yet exist as a filename, or is a file that
you don't mind overwriting. You can then view the file afterwards.
(In earlier days, I often combined -find- with -for-. Due to some
improvements in -find-, it is usually not necessary, but it is
something that may be worth being aware of.)
HTH
--David
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