I need to search pdf-files for patterns and then I just want the name of the files containing "region värmland", using that to copy the files to a different folder.
The pattern is in the top right corner, and if possible I would like to search as little as possible in the file due the number of files.
I could not find any relevant information when googleing how to just search for one set of words and keep the output inside the script for further use.
Anyone who can help with this?
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I have a folder with hundreds of text files in it. The file names have zero meaning. I am trying to extract a variable number that appears after a string in each file and and rename the files using it. I'm somewhat of a Powershell newbie (an old timer form the DOS world) but I have written many useful scripts with it. I've searched high an low, this one has me stumped.
Any and all suggestions are welcome, or I'd happily pay someone for the snippet of code. -Ed
I have a folder containing 1000+ PDF files with generic names (i.e. DOC (1)) that I need to rename with the order number, which is listed inside the file itself. I've had to manually open each document, look for the order number, then change the file name.
I have a spreadsheet list of all of the order numbers contained in that folder. I've used the search function of the file explorer to look up each individual order #, then renaming whichever file comes up. This has reduced the task time substantially but it's still very time-consuming.
Does anyone know of a macro or scrip that I can build to automate the task? Again, I would need something to grab the order number line by line from the spreadsheet, then go to the file explorer to search for any files with that specific term, and finally rename whichever file comes up with said term.
Any and all relevant help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for your time!
How to find or replace a word in the documents in the given folder
Is there is a tool or any script is available to do that?
Thanks.
Finding text is straightforward. There are several ways to do it, including using the Windows search utility. Here's an article with several methods: Search through the content of multiple Word documents
To find and replace, you can use a free text editor like Notepad++. It has a very good Find in Files utility. There are many other utilities that can do this, some paid and some free.
Finally, you can write a VBA macro that will find and replace all documents in a folder. Here's a page with a macro listing that does that: How to Find and Replace Contents in Multiple Word Documents
When you use window and go to a folder, there will be a search box and when you write something there, windows will automatically search the folder and all subfolders inside it for the keyword (it searches the title and the content of all documents also).
I just wonder if there is a way to perform that similar action but in command prompt (I want to search all types of file: pdf, txt,...)
I have tried find and findstr but findstr only searches text file and for find it returns wrong result for me. Because I know for sure that for example the word 'dangerous' is in a document but the result from find is 0
Do you want it to search the filenames for the keyword or the actual contents of the file? In such case i think you will need to write a simple c++ program to stream the data of each file and search for the keyword that way
In Eclipse (CDT), is there a way to find all occurrences of a string in a single file? I can search the entire workspace easily enough using Ctrl-H, and can do "find-next" using Ctrl-F, but I want to be able to see a list of all matches for just one file.
It would be possible to do by setting up a custom file filter for each file I want to search, but that's very clunky. Eclipse should be able to work out which file I have open and just search that file.
This seems like it should be easy, but I can't find an appropriate option...does it exist?
Use CTRL+H and switch to File Search as you already mentioned, but set Scope to Selected resources. Now you can either search the current file, or selected multiple files and search all of them