Notepad Multiple words search in a file may be in different lines

Question

How can we perform multiple search for multiple words and the line containing them  These words can be in same or different lines  For example   1 The CAT goes up and down the ROAD   2  The DOG goes up and down the CITY   3  The HORSE goes up and down the TOWN   4  The DONKEY goes up and down the TOWN     Now  I wish to do a search for the lines containing CAT and TOWN in one shot  So  I would get the output as line 1  3  4 in sequence  That would be the same way we do in Unix  more file   egrep  CAT TOWN     How can we do it in Notepad

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You need a new version of notepad    Looks like old versions don t support     Note  egrep  CAT TOWN  will search for lines containing CATOWN   CAT   TOWN  is the proper or extension  matching 1 3 4   Strangely you wrote and which is btw  CAT  TOWN   TOWN  CAT

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Possible solution   In Notepad     click search menu  the click  Find  in FIND WHAT   enter this      cat town Select REGULAR EXPRESSION radiobutton click FIND IN CURRENT DOCUMENT   Screenshot

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If you are using Notepad   editor  like the tag of the question suggests   you can use the great  Find in Files  functionality   Go to Search  rarr  Find in Files  Ctrl Shift F for the keyboard addicted  and enter    Find What    cat town  Filters     txt Directory   enter the path of the directory you want to search in  You can check Follow current doc  to have the path of the current file to be filled  Search mode   Regular Expression

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lt shameless-plug gt   Search  is a notepad   plugin that does exactly this  You can download it from here and install it following the steps mentioned here  Feel free to post any issues suggestions here    lt  shameless-plug gt

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