Jeffrey Friedl's perl script search is an indispensable tool that I use every day. At heart, it "just" performs recursive searches for strings, but it's superfast, has a zillion options, is extensible, and basically is The Right Thing in every way.

I had to muck with a few things to make it work for Windows 95. Here's the ported script.

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Last updated 29 Aug 1997