search multipy files

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I need to search the complete data drive of my system, for
any files with could contain about fifty diferrent
keywords. Can anybody point me in the correct way on how
to do this.

Thanks

Peter
 
Peter said:
I need to search the complete data drive of my system, for
any files with could contain about fifty diferrent
keywords. Can anybody point me in the correct way on how
to do this.

Thanks

Peter
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That may take a long time if you can't reduce to some file types.
Put your keywords in a file i.e. KeyWordList.txt one per line.

findstr /S /G:KeyWordList.txt drive:\*.*

How shall the results be processed? Tell us some more details for a
better solution.

For other options of findstr.exe see:
findstr /?

HTH
 
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That may take a long time if you can't reduce to some file types.
Put your keywords in a file i.e. KeyWordList.txt one per line.

findstr /S /G:KeyWordList.txt drive:\*.*

How shall the results be processed? Tell us some more details for a
better solution.

For other options of findstr.exe see:
findstr /?

HTH
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thanks for that.

I will pipe the results to a text file and then review
any files found by opening the document relevant document.

We also need to check all file types, since we are unsure
what they could be. Also the person tends to change the
extension.
thanks again

peter
 
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