Find files: General

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General

This page allows to search for file names, parts of file names, and text inside files.


Field Meaning

Search for: In this field, you can enter the search mask for the files you want to find.
Examples:
*.ini finds for example win.ini
Smith finds "Letter to Mr. Smith.doc"
*.bak *.sik *.old finds all backup files with these extensions
*n.ini now finds names which must contain an 'n' in front of the dot.
New: w*.*|*.bak *.old finds files, which start with w and do not end with .bak or .old.

Search in: Here you can enter one or more starting directories, separated by ";".

Drives Selects the drive(s) you want to search. You can select multiple drives.

Only search in selected directories/files
Only search in directories and files selected in Windows Commander's active file window. This allows to include/exclude specific files and directories from the search.

Search archives Enables search in files with extension ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, TAR, GZ, CAB and ACE. Text can even be searched in archives (now also in CAB)! The files are unpacked, searched and deleted on the fly.


Find text If this option is checked, you can enter text to be searched. With \t you find tabstops, and with \n line breaks (ENTER) in texts. To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

Whole words only Limits the search to whole words only.

Case sensitive Recognizes the case (small or big letters) of the word.

Example: Windows finds only "Windows", but not "WINDOWS"

ASCII-Charset (DOS) Special characters like the pound sign (£) are translated to their DOS equivalents (they have a different place in the DOS character set than in the Windows character set).
Find files NOT containing the text
Searches for all files which do not contain the given text, but still meet all other search criteria. Application: Multiple files need to be modified, and only the not yet modified should be shown.
Unicode Search in unicode files. In these, each letter is coded by 2 bytes. This format is used mainly on Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Hex Search for hexadecimal characters, e.g. 00 FF 12, or mixed, e.g. "PK"0102

Feed to listbox Transfers the files you found to the source file window, where they can be listed, copied or even deleted. This can only work when archives aren't searched.

go to file If you selected a file in the list of files you found, you can change to the directory of this file by pressing go to file. With F2 or Ctrl+R, you can go back to normal file display mode.

Start search: This button starts the search. It can be interrupted by pressing ESC or the Cancel button.

Cancel Interrupts the search process or closes the dialog box. The position of the dialog box is saved automatically when it is closed.