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Find files that don't have certain text string

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:18 pm
by Alan Kempster
I can't see a way of listing files in which a text string is missing. That would be very useful. Can TextCrawler do it?

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:57 pm
by DV
Short of doing a very compilicated regular expression, you could just Untick the 'View-->Only List Files With Matches' option, search for the text string, and then sort by Matches. All the files with 0 matches will have the string missing!

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:47 pm
by Alan Kempster
Ah, I hadn't found that option. Many thanks.