At 10:41 AM 4/22/2009, Luis wrote:
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?
Here's what I do. But I'm a bit old-fashioned about this kind of
thing. And this is not "in" Stata.
This applies to Windows. (Similar possibilities may exist on other
command-based systems.) Under the command prompt, I use the find
command. Suppose you want to search all do files in the current directory:
find "someword" *.do
Note the wildcard -- *.do
Now, if the output gets too big, I redirect it:
find "someword" *.do >aaa
Now aaa contains the output of that command, and you can view it with
your favorite view/edit facility.
Type "help find" at the Windows command prompt for more info on find.
You may especially want to use the /I option.
HTH
--David
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