How do you do the following kind of search in EasyFind? I have tried all of the Operators to no avail…
I want to find all files (or folders) that have an exact word and ONLY that word - NOT files/folders that contain part of the word in their title.
For instance, say there are two files (or folders): One called “azxs”; and the other called “azxs asd”. I want to find the item that is just called “azxs”, but all my searches come back with both - how do you search to only get “azxs”?
Note that in my examples above the " " marks are not part of the file name.
Just switch to Unix wildcards, enter the name and the desired results should be returned (as long as the name does not contain any characters used for wildcards).
Thanks for the tip, but when I switch to Unix-Wildcards, the find will only work as I want (see first post) on folders. It will not show files. So how do I do the search and have it work on both files and folders?
I believe it is not showing in the results because when searching on Unix-Wildcards, file extensions are considered part of the document name. The rtf document is named “azxs.rtf”.
thanks for all the opinions on this issue; however, no one has really answered my question that I originally posted. I have tried the ideas suggested in the thread, but none of them work. So to reiterate:
I want to find all files (or folders) that have an exact word and ONLY that word - NOT files/folders that contain part of the word in their title.
For instance, say there are two files (or folders): One called “azxs”; and the other called “azxs asd”. I want to find the item that is just called “azxs”, but all my searches come back with both - how do you search to only get “azxs”?
Note that in my examples above the " " marks are not part of the file name.
In case of files with extensions enable Unix wildcards and enter “word.*” (without quotes), in case of folders (or files without extensions) enter “word” (without quotes).