custom text search tool?

[seeker]

does anyone know a plugin for MS word, or even better a standalone search tool to search text files by entering a bunch of keywords and having it output the results on a specific window?

I am sure we all use different search tools, just wondering if there is any specific program that is highly recommended?

on the Mac, using Applescript, it is easy to program a custom made one, and I am already almost finished with mine, so once its all ready, i will post a link for it here so whoever wants it can download it. it works with mac OS X.
Just wondering if there is a similar alternative for windows.
Not just searching single words, but by entering for example
"domain,example,life,health" and it will scan the text file and display all resulting drop names from a text file that have those keywords.

Thanks

 

[theparrot]

no windows, but the 'grep' command on unix can do this, I would think it is on Mac OS X?

 

[seeker]

never tried the grep command.
I pretty much have the additinal script done for Mac Os X that does this.
It is an Applescript that I added onto a a 'lite word processor' like program, and now I can give it for example a search term like the one above, and it will return with all the values that are found being displayed in a new window and without multiple listings. For example, If a search is dont for 'aff' and 'guide' and one of the names found is 'affiliateguide.com', in theory it will be displayed twice as it was found on 2 different searches, but I have taken care of it so it returns it once.