I did a search for “error100” and DT found 100 matching files.
Now I want to:
Get a single file for the client showing all the matched lines from each of the 100 files.
Get an overall count of how many matches DT found (from all 100 files).
However, the moment I click on more than 1 document, DT no longer shows any matches at all. There is a “merge documents” menu option, but that’s not what I want to do.
My text editor, BBEdit, can do what I want, but all these log files are now in DT and I’m assuming DT is powerful enough to do these two tasks above also.
I’ll use BBEdit. It has regex BUILT In and does great reporting. I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that DT doesn’t do this as I would consider what I’m trying to do a basic “user goal”.
Do you use BBEdit? It has the ability to export lists of file finds. It’s not as good as “File Locator Pro” for Windows, but it’s amazing anyway. Probably my most used utility. I guess “great reporting” was a bit too strong.
Thanks.