Filename search needed

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Aeneas
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Filename search needed

Post by Aeneas »

It should be trivial to add an ability to search for a filename within 100,000's of files to the Find In Files capability, as opposed to finding a string within the contents of 100,000's of files.
Opening a result line in the filename search results should open Windows Explorer for the containing folder.
The default filename search would match on any filename or directory name within the search scope.
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Post by AmigoJack »

But TextPad is a text editor, not a file manager. Filenames have nothing to do with their content. The command prompt (aka console) of Windows (or nowadays PowerShell) is perfect for this task for decades already: recursively list a folder's content with all sub-folders, filtered by a specific filename.

Examples:

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DIR /b /s startswith*
DIR /b /s *anywhere*
DIR /b /s nameuntildot.*
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