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x16wda:
Another possibility is to use a desktop search engine like the freeware Agent Ransack
-cyberdiva (July 20, 2013, 08:22 AM)
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+1 for Agent Ransack.

skwire:
I want to search for specific block of text (multiline text) and if found in a file to delete that file

also, if found on that file, to delete that text, or the other that that text
-kalos (July 20, 2013, 06:18 AM)
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These two actions seem to be mutually exclusive, no?  I mean, why "delete that text, or the other that that text" if you're going to delete the file anyway?

At any rate, there are plenty of applications that will find and replace text across multiple files.  Just do some Googling or DDG'ing.  Here's one:

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/textcrawler.html

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