{"id":1336,"date":"2017-03-27T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2017-03-27T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:44:01","slug":"search-for-specific-text-in-files-or-folders-using-windows-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Search for specific text in files or folders using Windows search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To find the exact text search string in Windows search you need to use the following:<br \/>\nThe asterisks are just used as wild cards as with normal searches<\/p>\n<pre>name:~\"*my_text*\"<\/pre>\n<p>This also works for brackets and other special characters that would normally be ignored.<\/p>\n<pre>name:~\"*(my_text)*\"<\/pre>\n<p>You can perform the same search function but only for specific folders, not files<\/p>\n<pre>kind:folder name:~\"*(1)*\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find the exact text search string in Windows search you need to use the following: The asterisks are just used as wild cards as with normal searches name:~&#8221;*my_text*&#8221; This also works for brackets and other special characters that would normally be ignored. name:~&#8221;*(my_text)*&#8221; You can perform the same search function but only for specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,17,168],"tags":[331,320,248,198,262],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win-7-10-tips-tricks","category-windows","category-xp-tips-tricks","tag-file","tag-folder","tag-search","tag-text","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}