Is there a Windows utility that will allow you to search against a large collection of small text files, and display not just a list of the found files, but the contents of all matching files in a single scrollable column, with lines separating each matching file, the results being sortable by different criteria?
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If you borrow Unix utilities (e.g. by installing any of Cygwin, GnuWin32, unxutils etc) then you can probably achieve that with a combination of grep
and cat
cat `grep -l target *.txt | sort {options}`
or maybe
grep -l target *.txt | sort {options} | xargs -n 1 cat blanklines.txt
You can probably do it using Windows Powershell.