Search Syntax

Search opterators break the search into search terms.

Operators
Search Terms
Wildcards
Macros
Character Entities
Filename Parts
See also

Operators

space: AND two search terms together.

For example:
abc 123 = searches for: abc AND 123
|: OR two search terms together.

For example:
abc|123 = searches for: abc OR 123
!: NOT a search term.

For example:
!abc = searches for: NOT abc
< >: Group search terms together.

For example:
!<abc 123> = searches for: NOT ( abc AND 123)
" ": Escape operator characters.

For example:
"abc 123" = searches for the literal text: abc 123

Search Terms
An Everything search is made up of search terms.
Search terms can be literal text or search functions.
Literal text without a search function matches filenames.

For example:
abc matches filenames containing abc.
date-modified:today matches files and folders modified today.

Search terms can be prefixed with search modifiers to change the search behavior.

For example:
case:ABC matches only uppercase ABC.

Wildcards

*: Matches zero or more characters (except \).
**: Matches zero or more characters.
?: Matches one character (except \).

The whole filename is matched when using a wildcard.

For example:
*.mp3 = match mp3 files
foo* = match files and folders starting with foo
stem:*bar = match files and folders ending with bar (ignoring extension)

Macros

audio:: Search for audio files.
zip:: Search for compressed files.
doc:: Search for document files.
exe:: Search for executable files.
image:: Search for image files.
video:: Search for video files.

For example:
audio: search for audio files.
audio:|video: search for audio or video files.

Character Entities

&sp:: Literal space ( )
&vert:: Literal vertical line (|)
&excl:: Literal exclamation mark (!)
&lt:: Literal less than (<)
&gt:: Literal greater than (>)
&quot:: Literal double quote (")
&#<n>:: Literal unicode character <n> in decimal.
&#x<n>:: Literal unicode character <n> in hexadecimal.

For example:
C:\Program&sp:Files = match files/folders in C:\Program files
&excl:readme.txt = match files/folders with a filename containing !readme.txt
content:&quot:foo&quot: = match file content containing "foo"
diacritics:&#xad: = match files and folders with a filename containing a Soft hyphen (-)

Character Entities

Filename parts

Full Path	`C:\folder\file.txt`
Name	`file.txt`
Path	`C:\folder`
Stem	`file`
Extension	`txt`