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Re: Search through recent files only



Are you running Windows? HYou can easily do this with find/advanced search

Jay McNally wrote:

> Is there a way to SEarch through only the most recent files in a directory?
>
> I have probably 2,000 files going back several years in a directory and
> would like to find a particular string in a single file I think was STored
> in the last few weeks.
>
> If I could just search through the most recent few dozen file, I'd save
> some time.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

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