Re: st: AW: Work with many Do files simultaneously

["Eric A. Booth" <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

Austin's program is great.  I might add to his comment about an OS  
utility that if you've got a Mac you might try this command from the  
Stata command window:
!mdfind word(s)

it's a pretty powerful tool.  You can set some constraints for mdfind  
to only look in the 50 Do-Files you mentioned by using a command like:
 !mdfind word(s)  -onlyin DoFileFolder



Finally, you can always use a freeware program like Google Desktop to  
quickly search your do-files.

~Eric

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On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Austin Nichols wrote:

> Or a OS utility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/grep) but try:
>
> clear all
> prog find
> version 10.1
> syntax [anything] [, Match(string asis)]
> foreach f of local anything {
> tempfile t
> filefilter `"`f'"' `t', from(`"`match'"') to("")
> loc n=r(occurrences)
> if `n'>0 & `n'<. {
> di `"`n' matches found in `f'"'
> *could also display relevant lines of file here
> }
> }
> end
> cd `c(sysdir_base)'a
> loc t : dir . file "*.ado"
> find `t', match(version 8)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Martin Weiss  
> <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote:
> > <>
> >
> > That sounds more like a case for a decent text editor than Stata.  
> > "Find in
> > Files" is standard fare for most of them...
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von
> > lmaldona@smail.uni-koeln.de
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. April 2009 16:41
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: st: Work with many Do files simultaneously
> >
> >
> > Dear listers,
> >
> > I have 50 Do files and I want to find only one word. How can I  
> > explore
> > simultaneously these 50 Do files to find this word in Stata 10?
> >
> > Regards, Luis
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