Is there a tool to search inside both unicode and ANSI text files from the command line?

Question

I have tried to use findstr and even windows explorer but I can't get it to find text inside of unicode files. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

GNU grep for windows

should support Unicode transparently (apparently 2.5.2 is much better than 2.5.1 in this respect)

Also the grep included in Windows SFU is I believe capable of handling unicode or Ascii files transparently.

There are quite a few comercial windows grep replacements/alikes which claim to support unicode.