Questions tagged [search]
Search refers to the ability of finding any number of items of information with specified properties among a collection of items sharing the same type of properties.
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Is there a search URL for github.com that automatically goes to the first repository search result? [closed]
In browsers you can specify search URLs where if you add a search term after them it will search it, for instance if you add https://www.google.com/search?q=%s as a search engine, you can use it in ...
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How To Seach file names contain any digit/number In windws explorer,? Or file name contain digits/numbers fall between given numbered range?
I search on the web & also try below mentioned linked pages, but not get the solution.
In windows explorer, how to search files which's Name contain any digits or numbers? Or file name contain ...
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Is there a Kotlin search URL that would work with Chrome style search shortcuts?
Chromium based browsers, and tools like Surfingkeys, allow the user to set up custom quick searches, but they require a search URL with a syntax like: http://domain.tld/search?term=%s. I have quick ...
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How can I exclude attachment content when searching emails in Outlook on the web? [migrated]
When I search for a keyword in Outlook on the web, the search results include a plethora of emails that do not contain the keyword. At first blush, this makes no sense. My only guess is that the ...
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How to export site-search shortcuts?
I have dozens of shortcuts for site search on one MacBook (under Settings, Search engine, Site search). How do I export and import these to move them to another Mac? I know how to export/import ...
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regex to find non-price consecutive digits not immediately after certain word for Apple Numbers
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How to find invoice number from different companies which may have different order of invoice number, unit cost and total cost?
Following is specific example of a company XYZ which I need to get ...
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How can I get back some windows 10 features in Windows 11?
I have somehow upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without intending to do so. I am having two problems. There were a lot of things on the Start menu you reached by clicking on the windows button ...
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How do I limit Windows 11 desktop search to either filenames or file contents?
When I am doing a windows desktop search, sometimes I wish to search file names, and sometimes file contents, but never both at once. How do I limit my search to file names only? How do I limit my ...
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How do I limit a Microsoft desktop search to files on my computer?
When I want to search the web, I use a browser and my choice of search engine. When I use Microsoft desktop search I always want to search for files on my machine only. How do I limit an MS-desktop ...
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Windows 11 shortcuts on desktop not found via start search?
This seems so weird. I have some shortcuts on the desktop and when I click start or press win key, I just want to type beginning of those filenames and have it apper, but they don't! Seems like this ...
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How to do a Proximity text search, 2 + words?
What is a Linux terminal command to do a Proximity text search?
Search a directory, recursively, for files that contain :
2 words or more within
99 characters of each other
any order of above words.
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Creating a Chrome bookmark to automate a web PHP search
I am an user in some forum, and I want to create a bookmark for searching my past messages. To do so, you can open an advanced search link whose address is as follows (identifiable words have been ...
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disable chrome history in search bar
I like to define and use custom entries in Chrome browsing search engine site settings also as hotkeys for sites without any search functionality. I often use a single letter shortcut (for example 'd' ...
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Excel function for filtering a list of substrings to include & exclude
Excel function where if any row values in column A include a keyword from the list in column D but does not include a keyword from the list in column E, write True, otherwise, write nothing/keep it ...
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How to disable Firefox search when not typing on any input field? [duplicate]
I want to play https://vim-adventures.com/, but I can't use any key, as Firefox will automatically start searching for text, as if I press Ctrl + F. I know this is convenient for most case, but here I ...
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Change chrome built-in search engine shortcut
I want to change the shortcuts for my chrome built-in search engines. As you can see in the picture below I have changed the bookmarks search from the default of @bookmarks to :b, however there is no ...
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Thunderbird: Smart(er) Searches
I recently migrated to Thunderbird from Apple mail, which I have watched slowly ensh!ttify over the past 20 years. There were hiccups, like zombie rules from iCloud and Thunderbird inventing a "...
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outlook - how to search for specific time range
I would like to search macOS outlook for specific time range. Does anyone know how to do that?
received:1/1/24..1/10/24 after:12:00 AM before:5:00 AM
I found this page https://support.microsoft.com/...
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windows-equivalent of mac's "insert pattern" functionality for {find,search}ing/replacing text
surprised no one has asked this question yet.
is there any way to get the "insert pattern" functionality that is available on pretty much all mac apps with search and replace (except, ...
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What specifically is being searched in Thunderbird Quick Search?
Thunderbird offers a "quick search" bar across the top of the screen, and when used, the results appear as below.
What, explicitly, is being searched in this quick search?
Body of message?
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Enabling Search Bar Functionality for Network Shared Files on Windows [duplicate]
I have a specific question regarding the functionality of the search bar on my Windows machine. Previously, when searching for files that were included on my PC, they would automatically appear when ...
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Windows Explorer Search does not find anything on Pictures, Documents, Downloads folders after manually moving them
Search in C:\Users\Komninos\Downloads not showing any results in Windows Explorer.
The quick search is not working for Downloads, Pictures, Documents folders, which are the folders I moved from D:\...
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Windows search results in a tree or taxonomy form
I want to search keyword inside files and then have results show as as tree/taxonomy not just plain one dimensional list of files.
Is there some way to setup windows search this way?
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How to create Outlook 365 Search Folder for Calendar Items
When creating a Search Folder in the Outlook 365 desktop app, the user is prompted to pick a folder to include in the search. Calendar does not appear in the dialog box -- only email message folders. ...
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How to get last modification date timestamp in "DIR /S /B" result?
In the early days of Windows (3.1, Windows 95) there was a wonderful feature, called "Find", which could be used for finding files on your computer.
Some *** has decided to remove this ...
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Could any of you explain how many Google search engines actually are? [closed]
Could any of you explain ( or any of you knows) how many Google search engines actually are? In my country ( POLAND) they used to teach us we ought to always use www.google.com....that would be per ...
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Is it possible to make search keywords work for a dynamic site?
For example, I can set up a keyword for https://searchcraigslist.org/
but when I try using it, it just goes to the site and then I manually have to search on the site which defeats the purpose. The ...
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Exclude PSTs from Windows Desktop Search Indexing in Windows 10 when they are not open in Outlook 365
Win10/22H2/O365 2302. I have about a dozen PST files that I do not want Windows Desktop Search to index, to keep the index EDB a reasonable size. Historically, I thought WDS did not index PSTs unless ...
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How to create a custom Site Search in Chrome that uses Google's I'm Feeling Lucky
I like to be able type ltf and then a space and then my query such as kms_alias which should perform an "I'm feeling lucky" search for terraform kms_alias and therefore bring me to https://...
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Vlookup with search and left to find partial string
I'm trying to use a vlookup to pull information from one sheet to another but the reference information is different. For this example I put it on one sheet to make it easier. The information is ...
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Search for "special" characters in FILE CONTENTS using Mac Finder
I have looked everywhere for the answer to this and I can't find it... I have found lots of examples of searching for file names with special characters, but none searching for file contents with ...
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Search directory of multiple files for string of data
I need to search a bunch of files for a particular string of data that I have stored in HEX format.
For example, I have over 200 files, one of which contains:
60 55 8B EC 83 EC 48 56 57 83 CF FF
How ...
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Regex to find more than one occurrence in GrepWin
I want to find more than one occurrence of the tag h1 in multiples files.
The following regex brings files that has it more than 2 times, which is working great:
/(h1.*){2}/
However, what if I want ...
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Merge all Outlook inboxes in search
I found a useful tutorial for combining the inboxes of all email accounts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8m6HorjaNA
It cleverly operates by running a search for "folder:inbox received:today&...
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yt-dlp: search and download videos with closed captions / subtitles
yt-dlp has the ability to search the web for videos from the command line and download the first result, but I'd like to limit the search to results with Closed Captioning (㏄) or subtitles, if ...
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Why search in file explorer finds nothing?
I open a window of file explorer in Windows 10
In the window I can clearly see a file with a name. Let's say [THEfile].txt
However, when I write in the search place to the upper right "THE", ...
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In Chrome, is there any way to use the search engine shortcut keyword before or after the search string?
It currently behaves like this:
typing 'yt test' in the address bar correctly gives this
but 'test yt' just gives this
I often want to type the keyword I'm thinking of first rather than the engine/...
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IrfanView Is there a way to search for images whose titles *don't* contain a certain string?
In Irfanview>Options>Search Files.. dialog box, is there a way to search for images which don't have a certain word in the file name?
I wish to search for ones which don't have 'balloon' in ...
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Searching for mp3 files without matching cdg file
I use Windows 10, and have about 15,000 mp3's in one folder, some of which have matching cdg's that show lyrics. I would like to search the folder to find mp3's which DO NOT have matching cdg files ...
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How to find files which I open the most?
Is there a way to figure out which files I open most often on my computer? For example, a simple count of how many times a file has been opened in the past N days would be a good start. Finding a way ...
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Search Issue After Disabling Windows 11 Bing Search
I have encountered a problem where I couldn't access environment variables after disabling Bing search via:
+ R → Open: regedit → OK
Created new DWORD BingSearchEnabled with value 0 within:
HKCU\...
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Is there a list of Microsoft Apps made by Microsoft on their store?
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Microsoft Store's UI lacks specificity: an absence of filters for
searching.
Luckily, you can search via author by clicking on the author of an app.
Searching by Microsoft (as author) ...
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Windows Search alias
I have a program that I used to use all the time. Now however a new one has superseded it. However I constantly forget it's name, and when searching for it using the windows search, I keep using the ...
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How to search for specific text only in uncommitted changes since last commit in Visual Studio Code?
I have made changes to my repository and I can see the changes of the files under Source control in this tab on the left of VS Code. This shows all my uncommitted changes in git.
I have a compilation ...
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Search Windows 10 directory for subfolders and files with common words in their names without specifying the words
Hard to explain! Please bear with me...
I rip my vinyl record collection to MP3 format. Each album gets its own folder. The naming standard I use for each album folder is "Artist - Album".
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How to disable Edge search from address bar?
It seems somewhere along the line Edge (claims to be 114.0.1823.67, June 29, 2023) completely removed the option to disable it. I thought it was there previously. I'll have to quit using the darn ...
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Windows 10 search nonfunctional since June updates [duplicate]
Since the June 2023 patches, my Windows 10 search has not been working. At first the query "thinks" for several seconds indicated by the top of the popup window rolling through the little ...
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How to search bookmarks or history in Firefox directly from the navigation bar?
Is there a way to quickly search bookmarks or history for a page in Firefox's navigation bar? I understand Firefox's navigation bar by default searches bookmarks and history along with other things ...
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how to re-enable start button program starting in Windows-10 [duplicate]
The regular way to start a program in Windows-10 (Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3086)) is by pressing the START button, waiting for the list of programs to appear and choose one of them.
I do it ...
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How to prevent right-click Google search from opening side panel in Chrome?
In Chrome 115 (currently Beta channel) the "new" right-click Google search ignores the flag (chrome://flags/#search-web-in-side-panel) which I have seen documented as supposedly being there ...
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