Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.

["Rodrigo A. Alfaro" <raalfaroa@gmail.com>]

I like your solution. I should say rather than complex, over-protected
over-"visualized". Maybe someday we will return to the basics.

DOS lives!! :-)
Rodrigo.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kantor" <kantor.d@att.net>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:58 AM
Subject: 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 I may be out-of-date, but to me this is an example of 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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