<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I need suggestions for 2 things.<br />
<br />
1) &nbsp;I need a utility that can search through all folders on a hard drive and perform a Regular Expression search, showing which files matched the expression 1 or more times.<br />
<br />
2) &nbsp;The expression I need is like this:<br />
<br />
&quot;Tell me if George is within 10 characters of Washington&quot;<br />
<br />
So the following would qualify:<br />
<br />
-George Washington<br />
-George went to Washington<br />
-George ( CR / LF )<br />
Washinton<br />
<br />
This would not:<br />
-George went to see the fair in Washington county<br />
<br />
<br />
Please provide the reg ex - I rarely use it, but sometimes I really need it. &nbsp;: &nbsp;)
</div>
</div>


I need suggestions for 2 things.

1)  I need a utility that can search through all folders on a hard drive and perform a Regular Expression search, showing which files matched the expression 1 or more times.

2)  The expression I need is like this:

"Tell me if George is within 10 characters of Washington"

So the following would qualify:

-George Washington
-George went to Washington
-George ( CR / LF )
Washinton

This would not:
-George went to see the fair in Washington county


Please provide the reg ex - I rarely use it, but sometimes I really need it.  :  )

Grep - regex - find files matching pattern

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.