Windows XP's Search Companion seems to be a lot more powerful than searching in Windows 7.  Particularly, I want to be able to search for filenames matching some pattern, containing a particular word.  For instance, how do I find files with the extension "sql" containing the word "view_customer"?
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In Windows XP we can search for files that contain a defined keyword (inside all files types).  Windows 7 can look inside files for a keyword, but only for text files. (*.doc, *.txt, *.inf, ...), not (*.conf, *.dat, *.*, ...).   don't contain any filter I can use for this.  How is this possible?
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I am trying to locate a file that (should) contains the string "1896.345", somewhere under /home/dir/.  Any ideas of how I can do it? Thanks
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How can I make the \lstinputlisting to search for files in a given directory? I'm thinking of a solution along the lines of the solution to .  I would like to have a solution like  \lstinputpath{/some/path/in/the/system} \lstinputlisting{file.ext}   where file.ext resides in /some/path/in/the/system. I tried to search for such solution without luck. I found that inside of the definition of \lstinputlistings the authors use a \lst@inputpath. However, a naive modification of this macro doesn't yield any results.
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I'd like to be able to find all files in my Google drive that contain the string "_INSTRUCTION_" in the file name. Is there a way to do this?  EDIT 1: When I search for "RMA2013", I should get a dropdown with several options. As you can see, there are several Word and .pdf files with the phrase "RMA2013". Still I get no dropdown help:   And even if I click the search button, I get nothing:
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I like the folder-tree behavior of Windows XP, that is, clicking on any folder on the left pane will automatically expand the folder-tree. Unfortunately this is not how Explorer works in Windows 7.  Does anyone know how I can get Windows 7’s Explorer to behave like the one in XP?
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I have a directory (e.g., abc/def/efg) with many sub-directories (e.g.,: abc/def/efg/(1..300)). All of these sub-directories have a common file (e.g., file.txt). I want to search a string only in this file.txt excluding other files. How can I do this?  I used  grep -arin "pattern" *, but it is very slow if we have many sub-directories and files.
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I'm trying to get Windows Search (4.0) to index PDFs and .pub, .doc, etc. files.  The files are on an XP Pro PC acting as a file server. But I don't have MS Office, etc. installed (no need, trying to keep it "slim and trim") but WS 4.0 is doing the indexing of those files and not indexing .pdf and .pub.  I've found a few  (from Foxit PDF reader) rated 3/5 and only support WS 2.0 or 3.0.  Looking for other solutions and also a way to index .pub files.
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One of the things I like best when using OS X is the  tool. You can click a magnifying glass in the corner, and search for apps, files, anything. Windows 7's Start Menu search tool is similar. Does Ubuntu have anything like this?  Gnome Do has some similarities, but it's really more about doing things than searching for things. Something with a panel applet like Spotlight would be ideal.
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I need to search for files starting with some particular name. There can be multiple files starting with a particular pattern and I want to list all such files present in the directory.
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Assuming that the grep tool should be used, I'd like to search for the text string "800x600" throughout the entire file system.  I tried:  grep -r 800x600 /   but it doesn't work.  What I believe my command should do is grep recursively through all files/folders under root for the text "800x600" and list the search results.  What am I doing wrong?
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When I use the search function in  it only returns files with matching file names. It doesn't even support wildcards. For example, "*.txt" doesn't return anything. I would expect it to return all .txt files.  Anyway, is there a way, without using the command line, to search the contents of files, including all plain text files (.txt, .html, .css, .js, .c, .csv, .sh, .py, ...), archives (.zip, .7z, .rar, .tar, ...), office/libreoffice files (.doc, .docx, pptx, .odf, .ods, ...), and media (.mp3, .mp4, ...) meta data? The search should also have the option of setting file size, date, type, and being case insensitive.
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In Windows 7, I want to add tags to my files (PDF, Word, Images etc) so that they appear directly in the search results, regardless of their content, title etc.    shows how to search by tag, but it does not tell how to add a tag in any file.  In the long term, I'm planning to add such tags programmatically as well.
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I've had some issues with the new search function in Windows 7. The Search in Windows XP was packed with so many more options. The only option I can access now are Date Modified and Size.  Any pointers to how to get more options in the Windows 7 Search, or links to external programs that can make my life easier?
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Does anyone know if it's possible to change a setting so that the full file name is selected when you rename a file in newer versions of Windows?  (i.e. to match the behavior in Windows XP).  Currently it doesn't select the extension, so I have to do it manually.
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Is there any way I can search based on the last three digits of a file name?  I have a file with many invoices that are easy to reference with the last three numbers. Is there any way I can search something like *765 to search for ends with 765  Another example.. sometimes files are prefixed with a 0, sometimes not.. 093241251 vs 93241251 and if I just search 93241251 it will not find the 0 prefix version
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Within a set of directories, how do I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as "abcde"?
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I'm new to SharePoint 2013 and I'm quite puzzled, that it seems to be impossible to search for the middle part of a string.  Simple example:  I've added a lot of documents (PDFs, ...) from our Windows Server to the SharePoint Library and I want to add metadata. I try to filter the view of the document library, to only get those documents which I currently want to edit.  The names of the documents are very systematic, composed of naming conventions with abbreviations like:  Superthing2000-b_Suppl_REF_13580_note_1108_04en which means e. g.: Document about Product "Superthing2000", variant "b", Supplement to the manual, ID "13580", from 08/2011 in english language.  Now, I'd like for example to filter out all documents containing ID 13580 or "en" for english, but no chance, as suffix matching is not possible, even if I explicitly search for e. g. *en*.  Is there a way to define a search with kind of a "contains" operator which also finds files when the search string is only a part in the middle of the file name? Even the Windows Explorer search feature is able to do that!!