Find in Files is a Python application that provides a simple and efficient way to search for text within files on your system. It offers a user-friendly graphical interface, making it easy for users to execute complex searches using regular expressions.

• GUI Interface: "Find in Files" uses the wxPython library to create a cross-platform graphical interface.
• RegEx Support: Use Python's regex library for advanced text matching capabilities.
• System Wide Search: Recursively search through directories and files, displays the context in the results.
• Command Line Support: Execute searches from the command line with specified files and folders as arguments.
• Windows system support:
  • Context Menu Integration: Integration with context menu, allowing right-click on a file or directory and search within them directly.
  • Send To Menu Integration: Offers integration with the "Send To" menu for quick access.

This program require python>=3.6 and wxpython>=4.0.0

Install requirement and run on Windows / OSX:

pip install wxpython
python FindInFiles.py

Install on Linux, you may need to find *.whl here and install:

https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux

• Run without arguments to search the current working directory:

  $ cd /path/you/need
  $ python FindInFiles.py

• Provide FILE or DIR paths as arguments to search in multiple locations:

  $ python FindInFiles.py DIR1 DIR2 .. FILE1 FILE2 ..

• Author: Shixian Li
• QQ: 11313213
• Email: [email protected]
• GitHub: https://github.com/znsoooo/find-in-files
• License: MIT License. Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Shixian Li (znsoooo). All Rights Reserved.