A straightforward utility to recursively search for text contained within files and directories.
I created a C# console application.
The actual recursive routine to search the directories and subdirectories recursively is quite straightforward:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | foreach (var directory in Directory.GetDirectories(sDir)){ foreach (var filename in Directory.GetFiles(directory)) { using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(filename)) { var contents = streamReader.ReadToEnd().ToLower(); if (contents.Contains(SearchText)) { FilesFound.Add(filename); } } } DirSearch(directory);} |
Each directory is recursively searches as well as all the files contained within it.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 | using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.IO;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using System.Threading.Tasks;namespace RecursiveSearch{ internal class Program { private static List<string> FilesFound { get; } = new List<string>(); private const string SearchText = "get; set;"; private static void DirSearch(string sDir) { try { foreach (var directory in Directory.GetDirectories(sDir)) { foreach (var filename in Directory.GetFiles(directory)) { using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(filename)) { var contents = streamReader.ReadToEnd().ToLower(); if (contents.Contains(SearchText)) { FilesFound.Add(filename); } } } DirSearch(directory); } } catch (System.Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } } private static void Main(string[] args) { DirSearch(@"E:\CodeSamples\Archive"); Console.WriteLine("Files containing the word " + SearchText); Console.WriteLine(); foreach (var file in FilesFound) { Console.WriteLine(file); } } }} |
So to search for all files containing the text “get; set” within the directory “E:\CodeSamples\Archive” gives the following output:
