searching site through FTP?

[blr044]

I have seen various times where a member has stated that they did a colable search looking a piece of code or perticular item(s) through out their site.

 

So how does one do this and it is done using FTP or a program like note master?

 

Thank you all for your time.

 

Bennett

[knifeman]

I have seen various times where a member has stated that they did a colable search looking a piece of code or perticular item(s) through out their site.

 

So how does one do this and it is done using FTP or a program like note master?

 

Thank you all for your time.

 

Bennett

Many text editors will search through multiple files. The files would be on your hard drive from a backup of the website. I am not familiar with note master, but textpad will do it.

 

Tim

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Personally I use 'grep {code} *' but then I have command line access to my server.

 

Arachnophilia (editor,html builder, and all around decent program) will search through all open files for code snippets, as will most any editor that can have multiple files open at once.

[MrPhil]

I've never heard of an FTP client that can search files for text. That's a function that really doesn't belong in FTP (it uploads and downloads files, period). As suggested previously, you can run something like grep "regular expression" file-pattern on your server, or you can download all your files to your PC (it's called a backup) and search there. Since obviously you're running Windows on your PC, you can get a copy of "grep" for Windows. It's a great search tool -- it uses "regular expressions" rather than fixed text strings, can search multiple files at once, can search in subdirectories, and can be told to ignore upper/lower case in its search.