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alias buscar {
set %Loop 1
:loop
set %dani $findfile($scriptdir,*.org,%loop)
//echo -a $read(%dani,t,varela)
//echo -a %dani
inc %loop
if %loop > 7 { halt }
goto loop
}

i want search on my files the word varela any sugestion thank you

Try this (while is always better than goto):


Use:
/SearchFiles varela

Using $findfile in a loop this way is a bad idea, because this is what it does:

$findfile will loop through the files in the directory until it finds the %cnt'th matching file in each iteration of that loop.

So when %cnt is 1, it finds the first file.

%cnt = 1; files found = a.txt

When it's 2, it'll find the first two files, and so on:

%cnt = 2; files found = a.txt b.txt
%cnd = 3; files found = a.txt b.txt c.txt

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Now, if we use $findfiles built-in looping functionality instead, each file will only be found once:

Ah. Thanks. I don't use it for much, so didn't know about that.