Subject: | Re: Searching for text inside libraries, form, scripts and reports
| Date: | Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:04:38 +0100
| From: | Roger Phil <roger@agent2000.co.uk>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-development
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Mark I always use Vlad's VM pro view to do this.
Mark Bannister wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Mark B
>
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RogerD
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