macOS Organizing long lists of text/docs

[knowhate]

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[chown33]

The 'grep' command (or others) at the Terminal command line might be useful. However, you'll need to describe exactly what you want to accomplish. "Organize" is far too vague.

 

[knowhate]

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[kryten2]

Have you tried TextWrangler's Multi-File Search? Take a look at the Search and Grep Reference section in TextWrangler Help.

 

[JustMartin]

Does sound like you need a terminal session, grep and a file redirect oh and possibly find as well. Here's an example of looking in all txt files for the start of a url and putting output into a file

find -name "*.txt" -print 2>/dev/null | xargs grep "http" > urls.txt

be careful about what you specify in the grep code as you might have to escape out any special characters like ':' or '/'

 

[robvas]

Throw them all in a program like Evernote

 

[knowhate]

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[kage207]

Does Evernote have the ability to organize according to defined parameters?

I am just tryihng to organize my bookmarks by URL. I am trying Text Wrangler now.

Evernote does not.

You'll need to use terminal by piping in the text from the files and use a regular expression to organizing like names.