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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How to prevent ST2 from searching in excluded folders?
I've got a sublime-project like this:
{
"folders":
[
{
"path": ".",
"folder_exclude_patterns": ["_doc", "cache", "logs", "_release"],
"file_exclude_patterns": ...
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Windows 7 - Searching within file names
Windows 7 Home Premium
64 Bit
I have download an icon set of over 1,000 icons, and all of the files start with "appbar", for example: "appbar.email." In order to find what I'm looking for I need ...
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Is there a chrome extension that can search for multiple key words at a time
The default search Ctrl + F could only search for one word at a moment, and only highlight the current key word.
But I want to search multiple word at one moment and highlight them all,
Is there a ...
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How can I copy the URL of a Google search in Safari (after searching via address bar)?
When I enter www.google.com in Safari's address bar and enter a search term in Google's search box I can later copy the URL of that particular Google search from the address bar.
However when I ...
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Search files for regex and return which files contain matches
I searched everywhere but didn't find out how to return a file content that matches given words or a regex.
cat /tmp/*.txt | grep "strings"
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How to search for Metro-UI Windows 8 apps' repositories in “Google Code”/“Sourceforge”? [closed]
When I searched in GitHub/Bitbucket everything was ok because of repositories names (and probably because of different search engines), but here are just app's names and it gives tons of unneeded ...
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How to force Windows 7 to find files that has the text I am searching in their name?
I remember clearly either XP or Windows 7 worked like this because. Basically if I were to search for "replace" in a folder, it shows "No files".
But if I search for "*replace", then it shows 2 ...
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Match regex pattern only in filename.extension
I need to use find to locate a file matching a regex pattern in filename.extension instead of the default, which matches /path/to/filename.extension.
For instance:
/folder
|--a-love-song.ogg
...
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Searching for words in Outlook 2010
Despite the fact that there is no ctrl+f feature to search in Outlook, and instead you must use ctrl+e, I still cannot seem to find any method to search contents of an individual email. ctrl+e only ...
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Windows Search OCR plugin/extension
Is there any plugin or solution available to let Windows Search index text in graphic pages embedded into pdf files.
Something like the amazing Omnipage OCR plugin which was available for Google ...
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In vSphere Client how can you search for a machine by it's name?
In vSphere I've got a lot of virtual machines to manage and am looking for a way to search by the name I gave the VM when I created it. Ctrl + F doesn't do anything. If I click on the pane the VMs are ...
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How to search only indexed files in Windows 8's File Explorer?
Windows 8's File Explorer searches every file in the computer, how do I change it to search only files in Indexed Locations? I don't want to use Win + F since I want the search result window to remain ...
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Popup search results for selected text in Firefox
Often, I want to add a relevant hyperlink for a blog post, but I find the tab switching really clumsy.
Is there a Firefox addon/userscript that can:
search Google/Bing for selected text,
display ...
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How to index and search SFTP/SSH files in Windows?
I use Index Your Files to index and search shared network locations quickly in Windows. I found some files on a shared network location. When I opened this network location in WinSCP I found that it ...
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How to combine find and grep to recursively search for str or str2 in *.html and *.php files from /home/smith/sourcecode?
How can i combine find and grep to search for str1 or str2, recursively, in all *.html and *.php files starting from a directory named /home/smith/source? The output only needs to list files (with ...
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Cannot search in Outlook 2010
I recently reinstalled Windows 7 (64-bit Professional), and reinstalling Outlook 2010 was part of that process. I am now unable to search for anything in Outlook, as it simply returns that no results ...
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How to grep long string across multiple lines, without knowing where the newline is
I want to search for a specific string across multiple lines in a file and get the line in which the match was found.
However, my problem is, that the file contains one very long string, and not, ...
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Binary file search on Windows 8?
I'm in a weird situation. I need to find a file based on its contents, not the name because the name is not unique...
For example, I have a file named "cat.jpg". It is a picture of a cat. I happen to ...
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How can I create an Outlook 2011 Search to match the text of the From address?
When an email is sent from a system (e.g. JIRA in my case), the email ends up with a source like the following:
From: "Oskar Austegard (JIRA)" <jira@example.jira.com>
I'd like to be able to ...
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Do not search in comments Visual C++ 2010
Somewhere in the code, I've forgotten std::cout<< which is now messing up my console. But my code us full of commented debug outputs and VC++ searches through all of them, making it impossible ...
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Excel 2010 - VLookup, Search and Match are doing things beyond my imagination
I have two worksheets, one containing a list of e-mail addresses and information, the other containing e-mail addresses that should be blacklisted. To remove the blacklisted e-mail addresses I thought ...
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Is there a search addon for Firefox that allows to add GET/POST variables from current page?
What I am looking for is basically the Firefox equivalent to this Chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selection-search/gipnlpdeieaidmmeaichnddnmjmcakoe
Now before everybody ...
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Solution explorer wildcard search in visual studio 2012
In the Visual Studio 2012 solution explorer search box, is there a way to search via wildcards?
Simply typing, for example, email*.sql returns no results instead of all SQL files that start with ...
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Windows 8 search with result context
Is there a way to search for PDF and Word documents in Windows 8 so that the search results display not only the file name, but also some context of where the search terms occur? A sentence around the ...
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How do I remove ASCII “Null” from a Microsoft Word 2010 document?
I have OCRed a document. The OCR software has created lots of NULL characters in the finalized Word 2010 document. I know that because I have found this converter, which has transformed one of the ...
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Search From a List of Multiple Entries using CTRL+F
I have many documents that I am viewing using Google Chrome and I am searching the PDF document for a word1. If word1 doesn't show up, I search for word2. If word2 doesn't show up, I search for word3. ...
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How to find out why is text not searchable in a PDF (and make it searchable)
I have a PDF article (not created by me).
However, I can not search for text in the PDF. All PDF viewers I've tried return zero results for words that are obviously in there. I've tried with Adobe ...
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Index Epubs Windows
Is there any way to get Windows to index epub and mobi files so that I can search them?
After reading this, I was able to add epubs to the list of indexed files, but it only gives me plain text as an ...
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Filter files by name and contents in Windows 7
How to: filter files by name and contents in Windows 7?
I need to find files named bob.xml recursively and leave (in the search results) only those that contain the phrase ...
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Search from current position in file or website
It seems the default search (Cmd-F) in Mac applications like Preview and Safari searches from the very top of the page.
Is there any way to make it so that searches start from the current position ...
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Change size of Windows 7 Explorer most recently used searches list
Is it possible to increase the size of Windows 7 search MRU list?
Below is URL to screenshot which describes what I'm saying about.
The default 3 items in list is not always convenient. I know ...
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Finding a file I hid from myself [duplicate]
OS is Windows 7, 64-bit, although thatโs probably irrelevant.
Iโm having trouble finding a file I was hiding from myself.
It was an RTF file and compressed into RAR; then I renamed it and removed the ...
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Remove application from Windows 7 search bar results
Is it possible to stop appearing in the results when searching in the search bar in Windows 7?
Update: I'm often opening text documents in Notepad++ to paste text to store as a reference or so I ...
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Is there a way when searching for things to make the highlight more obvious?
I'm using FireFox and sometimes the page is so cluttered when I press ctrl+f it says it found a match but I can't see where on the page it is. Is there a plugin or program I can use to make it more ...
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Search for archived emails by date, not keyword, in Thunderbird
I'm looking to be able to get a list off all emails by a certain date, no matter where they are in Thunderbird. I feel like this should be pretty simple, but:
date:02/08/2013
AND
02/08/2013
only ...
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How to search a tree folder
How can I do a search of all directories calles i18n under trees like src/main/resources using find or any other unix command.
Everything I'm trying doesn't work
I'm looking for something like:
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how to search for a specific string in the body of lotus notes email
There are previous questions similar to this have been asked but never answered explicitly.
Simply saving use search all documents with an indexed database is not a complete answer.
How do you ...
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How can I exclude attachment content when searching in Outlook 2010?
I've noticed that when I do a search in Outlook 2010, Outlook considers it a match if some of the terms I'm searching for are in a message attachment. I'd like to disable this.
When I search for ...
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how to show the result of a search as a sum in excel
I have a list of sales in an Excel file with vendor name and article price.
This list is on one page, now I want to display the sum of all the sales by one person on a second page.
I have tried to ...
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Cannot run internet search scripts from Xfce keyboard shortcuts
I have created different scripts that I successfully used under Lubuntu/Lxde, including some made to be run by keyboard shortcut that would start firefox and search selected text on the internet.
For ...
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Is there a way to create an Outlook search folder from a search?
I often do mail searches in Outlook and then wish that there were a way to save the search criteria to re-run later. Ideally, there would be a button on the Search tab that would allow me to create a ...
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Search Google Chrome web history for a PDF file
Is there any way to search in your Google Chrome history for a pdf file? I know you can accomplish this in the regular Google search box with filetype:pdf. But this does not work in the history search ...
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Windows folder search
I am on Windows-XP Professional. While using the windows search to find a keyword or phrase in file, is there any option to say that return results having that world only, do not return if that word ...
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How to get a list of recently changed files for a directory and all its subdirectories?
In Linux I know a command to find and list the latest modified files in a directory with all its subdirectories which would be find /var/www/ -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} \; | sort -nr | ...
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Search for e-mails with inline pictures in Outlook 2007/2010 advanced search
I am aware that there is a way of searching for mail items that have 1 or 2+ attachments within advanced search in the above outlook versions (and probably earlier ones also), however it appears ...
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How to find files whose names contain any of 2 strings?
I'd like to find files whose name contain "Mar" or "Jun", how can I do this?
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Add Firefox “/” and “'” keyboard shortcuts to Chrome?
I very recently switched to Chrome, and it generally works fine, but my last problem with it is lack of / and ' shortcuts.
For those that don't know:
/ is more or less like ctrl-f
' is like /, but ...
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Find occurrences of values in a given array in a single cell in Excel
I have a worksheet with a column containing names of Provinces and a column with its corresponding Region. On a separate worksheet I have an Address column. What I want to do is to find the Province ...
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Windows 8 search programs not working
It seems that the program search (when using the search charm from the desktop or the start screen, or when pressing Windows+Q) stopped working.
When I try to use it, it shows a message indicating ...
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git find last file modification on all branches?
I modified a file, i know exactly which one it was but it turns out i didn't merge it with master. I have no idea what branch I put it in but it was no later then 2 months ago but no sooner then last ...
