topic Re: *Search* in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127339#M1292544 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, it reads the QVS files (just plain text files with a different extension), but it lets you use more options when searching than FINDSTR.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:41:03 GMT Miguel_Angel_Baeyens 2018-09-14T11:41:03Z *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127336#M1292534 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there any automation for searching a particular word in all the Qlikview reports(Available report in my folder) script part ??</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127336#M1292534 Smeenakshi23 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Re: *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127337#M1292537 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Within your QVW scripts? No. QVW are binary files and not readable by text processings or findstr or grep-like command line instructions.</P><P></P><P>But you can export those scripts to QVS files (plain text), and then $(Include=) them on the QVW. </P><P></P><P>I use Windows Powershell <EM>ls</EM> and <EM>sls</EM> to do exactly what you mention.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:55:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127337#M1292537 Miguel_Angel_Baeyens 2018-09-14T08:55:18Z Re: *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127338#M1292540 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Will powershell reads the Qlikview file ??</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:58:28 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127338#M1292540 Smeenakshi23 2018-09-14T09:58:28Z Re: *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127339#M1292544 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, it reads the QVS files (just plain text files with a different extension), but it lets you use more options when searching than FINDSTR.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:41:03 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127339#M1292544 Miguel_Angel_Baeyens 2018-09-14T11:41:03Z Re: *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127340#M1292547 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Do you have nay sample script for it.. It would be more useful for me to go through</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:41:22 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127340#M1292547 Smeenakshi23 2018-09-24T13:41:22Z Re: *Search* https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127341#M1292549 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As I have mentioned, I'm not using any script, but command ls and sls in Powershell:</P><P></P><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code _jivemacro_uid_15378598850407860 jive_text_macro" jivemacro_uid="_15378598850407860"> <P>ls *.qvs | sls texttosearchhere</P> </PRE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:47:24 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Search/m-p/127341#M1292549 Miguel_Angel_Baeyens 2018-09-24T13:47:24Z