Search for text within a file?

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  1. keltoid, Jan 1, 2009

    keltoid macrumors newbie

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    How do you search for a text string WITHIN a file on the IMac?
     
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  2. firestarter, Jan 1, 2009

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    More details required... what are you trying to do?

    Most apps have a 'find' - open the doc in texedit/whatever and hit cmd-F

    Spotlight also indexes text in documents. cmd-space, then type the text you're looking for.

    If you want to do something a lot more advanced, I'd be thinking about using 'grep' on the command line.
     
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