For example, clicking on the Created column header will sort the files from oldest to newest. You can sort the files containing the search text by clicking on the column headers. This settings allows you to restrict the search to files with specific attributes.Įach file containing your search text is listed in the results window with a light gray background. This settings allows you to restrict the search to files within a specified size range. For example, you may want to only search files that have been modified within the last 7 days. This setting allows you to restrict the search to a specific date range. The difference between this option and the Find non-matching lines option is that, with this option, the search text cannot exist anywhere in the file, whereas with the above it can. If checked, UltraFinder will return a list of files which do not contain the search text. This is sometimes called a reverse search or negative search. If checked, UltraFinder will match lines in files that do NOT contain your search text and return these in the results. If checked, UltraFinder will execute a case sensitive text search in files. log files by adding *.log into the “Ignore files/types” fields.

You can also provide a full folder path in this field.įinally, suppose you wish to search for text in all files except those files with a. You can type this folder name into the “Ignore subdirectories” field, and any folders named “logs” that UltraFinder encounters during the search will be skipped. Or, suppose you also have a subdirectory called “logs” which contains very large log files which you do not wish to search.

For example, adding *index* to this field will instruct UltraFinder to only search in files with “index” as part of the file name. To search files only containing a specific string in the name, regardless of extension, use the string and an asterisk as a wildcard. You can execute your find now if you wish, but what if you want to filter your search to ignore certain subdirectories or certain file types?įor example, if you wanted to run your text search in web files only, you could add the following to UltraFinder’s In files/types field: *.htm *.html *.css *.js *.php

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