searching for a string in every file in a folder

[Sherman Wilcox]

I'd agree with Brian on BBEdit. You might also take a look at  
DEVONthink (it comes in various flavors and costs). With DEVONthink  
you'd have to let it index your files, but after that its searches are  
very fast and flexible (word, phrase, case sensitive or not, etc.).

-- 
Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics
MSC03 2130, LINGUISTICS
1 UNIV OF NEW MEXICO
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131


On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Frederick J Newmeyer wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
>
> I'm looking for a program that runs on the Mac and will search for a  
> particular string of words in every file in a particular folder.  
> (For example, one that will give me -- with one command -- all of  
> the occurrences of the string "I think that" in every  file in my  
> folder "Corpora."). The Unix 'egrep' command in Terminal will do  
> that, but rather awkwardly.
>
> More generally, what do people think is the best corpus-processing  
> program for the Mac out there? As many of you know, working with  
> Corpora has not generally been my thing, so I'm pretty naive about  
> what to do/use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --fritz
>
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser  
> University
> Mailing address: 1068 Seymour St.,
> Vancouver, BC V6B 3M6 CANADA
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