Command line search for word or phrase in files

[Marceepoo]

Could someone give me an example of a Command line search for a word or phrase in files?
The following search produces an Everything window that shows all files containing the string "smith" in the filename:

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"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -search "smith" -newwindow

But I want to create a command line that searches for the word "smith" in the body/content of files ending in .txt, .asp, .htm, .html, .doc, .docx, etc. --- If that is possible, how would I code that search?

Thank you for any help, even if it's only to some reference page.

Marceepoo

[void]

Please try the following search:


"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -search "ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx content:smith" -newwindow


If you need to escape double quotes, use triple double quotes, for example:


"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -search "ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx content:"""to be or not to be"""" -newwindow


-search
Command line option notes
Search syntax

[Marceepoo]

Thank you, .... more than a little belatedly.

The following search works just fine:

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"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -path "F:\K\Smith John" -search "ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante" -newwindow

But Everything freezes when I try to run the same search against the much larger directory, to wit, "F:\K" -- which has a little less than 1 TB of files/data.

I am guessing that the GUI imposes a lot of overhead, and so I tried my first stab at using ES.exe, and constrained myself to a smaller directory, to work out the kinks, but I didn't get very far. The following line of code triggered the error "unknown switch":

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"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" -path "F:\K\Smith John" -search "ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante" -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\Guyante001.efu"

The following line, without the "-search ", did not trigger an error, but the file that was created "Guyante.efu" was empty:

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"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" -path "F:\K\Smith John" "ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante" -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\Guyante001.efu"

What am I doing wrong? Also, is there a command line switch to create a log file?

Thank you so much for your help.

Marc

[void]

I think you are confusing the command line options for Everything.exe with the command line options for ES?

-path and -search are for Everything.exe

Please try the following ES search:
"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "F:\K\Smith John" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\Guyante001.efu"

Any parameters you pass to ES are treated as your search query, basically the same as typing in the search into the Everything GUI.

To view IPC requests in Everything, please try the debug console. IPC requests are shown in Cyan color.

[Marceepoo]

Here's the command line I tried:

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"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "E:\K\Rose Rita" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\Guyante001.efu"

Immediately after I hit the return key, I get a new command prompt, as shown in the following image, and the "Guyante001.efu" file is never created:

The image is now showing up in the preview, so I'm posting the image's url here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ge92PO ... sp=sharing
What am I doing wrong?

[void]

Does the path: E:\Zmani\Logging exist?

-If not, please try creating this folder before rerunning ES with the same command.

Everything might be performing a rebuild, try the following command:

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"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "E:\K\Rose Rita" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\Guyante001.efu" -timeout 300000

Does the following return any results:

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"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "E:\K\Rose Rita" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf

[Marceepoo]

I verified that there is a path: E:\Zmani\Logging

I'm not running everything as a service. My bootup batch file contains the following line to start everything:

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START "Everything" "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe"

I put the following lines of code in a batch file named: 2021-03-29__hakol_aaa.cmd and I ran it in a cmd window under Win10 with administrator privileges.

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set _DateTime=%DATE:~10,4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%_%time:~3,2%_%time:~6,2%

"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "E:\K\Rose Rita" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf content:guyante -export-efu "E:\Zmani\Logging\%_DateTime%_Guyante001.efu" -timeout 300000

"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" "E:\K\Rose Rita" ext:txt;asp;htm;html;doc;docx;pdf

The .efu file that gets created is always empty except for the headers.
If I run each of the lines (in the batch file) individually in a cmd window, I immediately get a cmd prompt after I enter the line of code; there is no delay.

Too much info? Is there something else I should tell you?
THANK YOU so much for working with me. Much appreciated.

[void]

If I run each of the lines (in the batch file) individually in a cmd window, I immediately get a cmd prompt after I enter the line of code; there is no delay.

This means Everything is not finding any results.

What is returned from the following call:

"E:\Apps\Everything\ES-1.1.0.18\es.exe" -get-result-count