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contextual text searching for 10.3.9?
Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried Easyfind and it works well for finding files, but I needed something that will return a line of text from a text file with my word in the middle, not just the file name. This is useful for finding the exact piece of information you need, from multiple sources, like searching all of classical literature for the name "Hercules".
contextual text searching for 10.3.9?
Thanks for the more detailed explanation of what you're looking for. I was also going to suggest Foxtrot but you've already discovered and tried that.
yet another option ...
If/when you upgrade to 10.4 there's an example of what I think you're trying to do in MacSlash | Using Spotlight In Terminal.app:
mdfind -onlyin ~ -0 password | xargs -0 fgrep -H -n "password"It's a powerful combination using mdfind (Spotlight) to quickly find files, then fgrep to display matching content within them. Different varieties of contextual search results could be produced with different options for those commands plus other post-processing refinements. Many possibilities.
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