Full text search using PowerShell, Everything, and Lucene

Searching for files is something everyone does on a very regular basis. While Windows is consistently changing the way this is done with every new operating system, the built-in functionality is still far from being sufficient. Therefore, I'm always looking for methods on how to improve this (you can also find several blog posts in …

Search file content by keyword using Everything + PowerShell + GUI

Even with Windows 10 MS still didn't manage to include a proper in-built file search functionality. If it is about searching for files I definitely prefer the excellent Everything search engine (see also my post on a PowerShell wrapper around Everything commandline) .But quite frequently I also need to search for keywords/pattern within files. PowerShell's …

Using Everything search command line (es.exe) via PowerShell

Everything by voidtools is a great search utility for Windows. It returns almost instantaneous results for file and folder searches by utilizing the Master File Table(s). There is also a command-line version of everything (es.exe) and this post is about a wrapper I wrote in PowerShell around es.exe. The full version including full help (which …