Subject: | Searching for text inside libraries, form, scripts and reports
| Date: | Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:08:05 -0500
| From: | Mark Bannister <markRemove@THISinjection-moldings.com>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-development
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I've posted this before but I use this many times a week when
developing. If you have access to a Linux system (virtual machine will
work with access to your pdox data) or you run a Linux server then you
can use this command:
find . -type f -name '*.*sl' -exec grep -li "TextToSearchFor" {} +
It searches inside files using regular expressions. In the above case
I'm searching in the current directory recursively, for all files ending
in .*sl; so all scripts, libraries, forms and reports.
This is really handy when you are trying to find all code that
references a specific method name, etc. Since pdox objects are mostly
text, it can also find every place you reference a table or alias in a
data model.
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Mark B
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