To Find Files with Containing Text
 Specify what you want to find
- Select
Find
| File Containing Text...
or (Alt+I,T)
from the main menu to open the dialog where you
can specify exactly which files you want to
find.
- If one or more folders are selected they will be
automatically entered into the Paths
filed of the dialog when it opens
- FileBoss remembers what has been searched in the
past even when it has been closed and then started
again so you can always select a previous entry
using the drop down list.
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for larger view
- Select
the drives or paths you want to check. Multiple
paths are separated with the semi-colon (;),
comma (,) or bar character (|).
You can even specify folders to exclude by
preceding the name with a minus sign. For
complete details right-click the field in the
program.
- Then
enter the type of search and the text or pattern
you want to find.
- Click
OK to search and create a Virtual Folder of all
matching files
In the above example FileBoss will find all htm
and html files in the Hamlet and Macbeth folders
on drive S for for sooth.
Hint:
You can
limit your search (and thus speed it up
and make its results more meaningful) by
specifying one or more folders to search instead
of just a whole drive. You can also, in the
Patterns field, specify only certain files to
search file such as
*.doc ; *.jpg ; *.jpeg
; *.html ; *.htm.
More about entering multiple paths and patterns
Both the paths and file patterns fields can accept
either simple entries, e.g.
C\Data\My Data and *.bmp or very
complex strings that specify not only what to include but also what to
exclude from a, most typically, search.
For instance both can specify multiple objects such as
C\Data\My Data ; D:\Backup\MyData
and
*.bmp ; *.gif ; *.png ; *.jpeg ; *.jpg
For a complete description of these fields either right-click the
mouse over the fields for context help from within FileBoss or see
Advanced Paths & Patterns.
More about
Finding Text in Files
Exact Match Searching
finds files with the exact text (except for white space) you
specify, with optional case matching. All white space is
treated the same and multiple white space characters are
treated as one.
Normal Searching
Normal Searching
allows the use of the question mark (?) and asterisk (*) to
match one and one or more characters respectively. All white
space is treated the same and multiple white space
characters are treated as one.
RegEx Searches
RegEx mode
uses a basic set of Unix style regular expressions.
All Searches are Binary
FileBoss will search for text correctly in
DLLs, EXE and other binary file types as well as in text and
document files.
Search a drive, path or multiple drives and
paths
Such as C:\ | \\Corp-backup\C\Accounting
Exclude specific folders or paths
C:\ | -Windows | -Program Files would exclude the
folders Windows and Program Files and all their subfolders
Restrict to specific file types and patterns
*.doc | *.rtf would check only files with names
ending in doc or rtf.
Exclude specific patterns
-*.bak | -*.tmp | -~* search for all files except
those that have the extension bak, tmp or that start with the tilde character.
Uses the power of File Sets
The results of the search are put into a File Set so that
the found files can be manipulated
individually, in groups or all together (copy, rename, delete, move and
more).
Save searches for later use
So the search can be used over and over again.
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