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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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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When I press the enter key in google search bar, instead of searching the keyword, it creates a new line [migrated]
This is a new issue that whenever I write something to search in google and press enter key, it starts a new line.
As per the below website saying I have cleared cookies and cache and the problem is ...
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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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Automatically hint/complete Google Chrome site search shortcut in address bar
Does anyone know a way for site shortcuts to be shown as hints or autocompleted with some keyboard shortcuts?
For example, I set this up in Chrome settings:
Name: Super User
Shortcut: @su
Search: ...
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How do I filter Microsoft Edge history search result by specific website?
How do I filter Microsoft Edge history search result by specific website? For example, only show results from youtube dot com ?
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Cannot restore default search engine as Google in Chrome despite workarounds
I accidentally deleted Google's default search engine and now the only default engine left is Yahoo.
I have tried manually adding it back using the code found here: How to restore the default Google ...
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How does one search for an exact phrase in Microsoft OneNote
Is it possible to search for an exact phrase in Microsoft OneNote in Windows? E.g., "The Fast and the Furious"
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How to search for all text lines that start with a tab character?
I need to find all lines in a text file that start with a tab character.
I tried this command:
findstr /B /R "\t" test.txt
But it doesn't print any lines.
I also tried with grep.exe (taken ...
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How do I disable the Microsoft Edge search bar on the Windows desktop? [duplicate]
On Windows 10, recently a Microsoft Edge search bar started appearing on the desktop.
If you click the 3 dots menu there is an option to "Auto-launch search bar" which you can turn off and ...
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How can I change the default (system) search engine for windows 10?
I would like to change the default system search engine from Bing to Google. I don't mean the default search engine of any browser, but the search engine that is used when searching in the windows ...
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Chrome Contacts Search no longer working
I am no longer able to search for a contact using the contacts search bar, yet if I initiate a new email from Gmail, the auto-complete will complete the addressee search as always. I have Firefox ...
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Copying a filename on the same line to the end of the line
I have the following lines in VIM:
<img src="file01.jpg" / >
<img src="file02.jpg" / >
<img src="file03.jpg" / >
And I would like to add the filename ...
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Search box in Windows 11 emoji panel does not work
The Windows 11 emoji panel/picker/keyboard (opened by Win + . or Win + ;) contains a search field, but it does not work. You can see the text cursor in this screenshot, but it is not blinking even ...
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"Windowns Setting": Result from Win 10 search bar
The question is whether the search bar result displaying an unlikely spelling error can be ignored or is a clue to the presence of something malicious.
It began with my need to know more about ...
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How to search in multiple xspf files in one folder?
On Windows is this possible?
There are a couple xspf playlists files in a folder.
How to search for a specific track?
Giving only a part of track name as search item
Thanks
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How to combine multiple queries in Slack?
In Slack, is it possible in a single query to get:
all messages from John with the word car in it;
all messages from Jane with the word boat in it.
The results should be combined and chronologically ...
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Searching for text in DJVU files through the Windows search panel
I have many DJVU files with OCR in one folder. What should be done or how can I search for words in these files through the search field in the folder (top left)? There is a reference to the DjVuOCR ...
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Keep Firefox find bar and search term open on all tabs, and persisting on session restart
I regularly across many search tabs (and using multiple tab rows on a 23" desktop monitor then I have many) for a certain text, such as in doing research, and want the findbar persisting open on ...
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BBEDIT multi-file search : multiple find&eplace queries simultaneously?
In another thread
grep search
got the proper use right for the OR argument in a grep search in BBEDIT and so was wondering whether this can be expanded as following :
is it possible to have a given ...
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How to list (search) files with a certain name
i'm trying to get a list of all the files with a certain name in a project i opened with VS Code.
For example, all the .gitignore files in my project. I know i can ctrl+p and type ".gitignore&...