Searching multiple files for multiple words

Question

I have to search trough a huge amount of .txt files. I know I can do multiple words search, but here's my problem. I want my results to only be the .txt files that contain all of the words of the search entry.

For example:

File 1:

test1 

File 2:

 test1  test2 

Search files for test1 and test2 will only result in showing File 2.

Hope someone can help me out. Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using Notepad++ editor (like the tag of the question suggests), you can use the great "Find in Files" functionality.

Go to Search > Find in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F for the keyboard addicted) and enter:

• Find What = (test1|test2)
• Filters = *.txt
• Directory = enter the path of the directory you want to search in. You can check Follow current doc. to have the path of the current file to be filled.
• Search mode = Regular Expression

Answer 2

If you are using Notepad++ editor Goto ctrl + F choose tab 3 find in files and enter:

1. Find What = text1*.*text2
2. Filters : .
3. Search mode = Regular Expression
4. Directory = enter the path of the directory you want to search in. You can check Follow current doc. to have the path of the current file to be filled.