Searching Across Multiple Folders at Once.

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Wanderer
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Searching Across Multiple Folders at Once.

Post by Wanderer »

Searching Across Multiple Folders at Once.
I’m having this problem. I often need to search for text in files within a folder that contains many other folders. Searching the entire folder, including subfolders, takes a very long time. Usually, I know the 5–10 subfolders I need to search.
I’ve tried selecting them to search only within those, but the search only happens in one of them.
Is there a way to search only in the specific folders I need to check?
therube
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Re: Searching Across Multiple Folders at Once.

Post by therube »

searchformein <path1 | path2 | path3>


ext:sha1 < c:/tmp/kkk/korsair | c:/out/kkk/korsair | c:/out/1099 >

find .sha1 files within the specified 3 directory trees.

|, is OR
< ... >, is "grouping"
void
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Re: Searching Across Multiple Folders at Once.

Post by void »

Semicolon delimited list of paths also works, eg:

c:\windows\;"c:\program files\"


Use double quotes (
"
) to escape any spaces.

For example:

c:\windows\;"c:\program files\" content:"foo bar"
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