Timeline for How do I search EVERY file name in a certain directory in Windows 7?
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| May 19, 2011 at 10:01 | answer | added | zbstof | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:34 | comment | added | A Student at a University | How can I feel good when I want to find my code on my drive, or someone else's lost doc or py file on their Win7 drive, and there is no tool that can do so in a reasonable amount of time? | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:27 | history | edited | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:26 | comment | added | Hello71 |
@Nitrodist: find is available on Windows, but it's *nix's grep.
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| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:14 | history | edited | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 23, 2010 at 9:46 | history | edited | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 11, 2010 at 12:38 | comment | added | harrymc | The Windows 7 Search won't let you search all of C:\WINDOWS. Even the wonderful Search Everything Engine fails there. Feel good: It's in the name of security & stability. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 12:24 | answer | added | barlop | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 11:57 | answer | added | A Student at a University | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 11:49 | answer | added | paradroid | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 11:35 | history | edited | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 11, 2010 at 3:09 | history | edited | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 11, 2010 at 2:56 | answer | added | notpeter | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jul 11, 2010 at 1:44 | comment | added | A Student at a University | I need to be able to do this on others' Win7 machines. | |
| Jul 11, 2010 at 1:40 | comment | added | Nitrodist |
I'd really suggest Cygwin in this case if you're already familiar with Linux or want an extremely powerful search program. Using the find command is just invaluable. You can also use regular expressions with the find command. You can achieve what you want with something like this: find /cygdrive/c/ -iname '*file name to search*' -depth 1
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| Jul 11, 2010 at 1:27 | history | asked | A Student at a University | CC BY-SA 2.5 |