Have to search through LOTS of files...
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:32 pm
Part of my current job is to search through (many times per day) 20,000 text files, looking for references to certain text strings.
"Ultra Edit" takes nearly FOUR minutes to complete this search and the program is completely unusable during the operation. Not good.
I downloaded "Advanced Find and Replace" (along with many other programs) and it completes the search in a little over TWO minutes, which is obviously much better. But I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do to speed it up?
Is there any way to EXCLUDE certain folders? There are whole directory trees that I don't need to search, but I can't see any way to tell AFR *not* to search there.
Thanks. (This is probably the best option I've found so far -- and I've been downloading demos all afternoon.) There are some programs that INDEX hard drive files for lightning fast searches, but they don't seem to support text files with non-standard extensions. Ours are .gas
"Ultra Edit" takes nearly FOUR minutes to complete this search and the program is completely unusable during the operation. Not good.
I downloaded "Advanced Find and Replace" (along with many other programs) and it completes the search in a little over TWO minutes, which is obviously much better. But I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do to speed it up?
Is there any way to EXCLUDE certain folders? There are whole directory trees that I don't need to search, but I can't see any way to tell AFR *not* to search there.
Thanks. (This is probably the best option I've found so far -- and I've been downloading demos all afternoon.) There are some programs that INDEX hard drive files for lightning fast searches, but they don't seem to support text files with non-standard extensions. Ours are .gas