Search for a string of text in multiple .txt files?

[khorpulent]

Not sure this is exactly a Lich question, but does anyone know how I could go about searching a bunch of different logs (.txt files) for a certain string of text and get a count of how many times that line appears?

Thanks

[Stumplicker]

notepad++

It's a free application and has a search in files function. It'll tell you how many times the string appears, in what files, and where in those files.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.1.html




Enter the text to search for, the folder to look in and let it go.

[khorpulent]

Much obliged

[AnOrdim]

Astrogrep for windows works pretty well too:
http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/

Point it to a folder, give it some parameters and off it goes. It shows a little preview of the string in a window as well. Counts in each file in the top details.