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Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:20:08 AM   
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Somebody asked while back whether there was way of searching through multiple combat report files and find references to specific units/locations etc.

This is perfect description for "grep" which unfortunately is a Unix utility. I was never able to find a user friendly Windows equivalent that I could recommend.

Until now!!!

The screenshot below is a search for the text string "BB" in my WITP-AE\SAVE directory and was as easy as typing in the search folder and the text to be found. It's freeware and installation was a breeze as well!!

CNet rates it 5 star. http://download.cnet.com/GrepWin/3000-20432_4-75338321.html

Available from the authors' site: http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html

It also does text search and replace so you can use it for lots of other tasks.

(For advanced users: Search is based on regular expressions so you can get really specific with your search criteria. )





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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:22:40 AM   
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Sadly a consideration these days....






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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:25:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Have you tried CombatReporter?  Very nice tool.

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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:36:10 AM   
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I'll be using grepWin for a lot of other tasks.

This is a generic tool if you just want a quick and dirty file search without any setup or going into the full analysis.



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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:47:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		You can also use NotePad++. Just open all your combat reports as individual tabs within NotePad++, hit Control-F, type your search string, and click on "Find All in All Opened Documents". It'll even give you a nice organized list of every found instance of "BB" in each file.

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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 5:11:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		You can also use the 'Find in files ..' from Notepad++ to look through files in a directory, just filtering to specific file extensions.
The results are listed and just clicking on the result will open the file for you.





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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 6:13:35 AM   
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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 11:28:09 AM   
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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 12:52:20 PM   
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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 1:59:31 PM   
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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 7:33:35 PM   
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This is the thread that started it all...

need help

I think GJ will be happy here are so many options available now.



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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/24/2012 9:33:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dorjun driver

Does no one use emacs anymore?


Did normal humans ever use emacs? Anything LISP based is automatically suspect.

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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/25/2012 1:34:34 AM   
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RE: Combat Report Search Utility (for Windows) - 12/25/2012 7:21:00 AM   
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