I don’t know why the file search on Windows sucks this much but, yeah… I can be looking at the fucking file I want, search for its exact name, and get zero results.
That’s your problem, that ain’t a file, boss, that’s a folder.
Is this a joke I’m too much of a Linux user to understand? (I use Arch btw.)
It’s a folder icon not a file icon
Yes, but they use Arch. Hope you noticed.
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On Windows, I’ve had good luck with the search tool Everything.
Everything is a required tool for any Windows computer I interact with.
And Wiztree! I really do love that program.
Including like little Spanners to fix it and big spanners to hit it?
And mlocate for Linux.
plocate is much faster and requires less resources. macOS users should use mdfind instead
Or like me obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.
find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"or
grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/grep -rIi “John.*Cena” dir/
I have this sort of thing aliased, with some added
--includeflags to filter file type (e.g., only match source/script files). Super useful!spending cycles trawling through everything
Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.
Thanks that was helpful at the right moment!
Happy I could help. It’s been everything Windows search is not.
Additional pro-tip if anyone is still using WinDirStat, Spacemonger, etc.: WizTree is game-changing.
$locate %filename%
Test.txt isn’t descriptive enough?
I literally have like 5 of these in my home directory…
This is why everything gets put into their own directory branch… and why I sometimes forget my pokemon fan games are for some reason in my Ankama folder for whatever reason.
I get it, because you See Nah
