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Search syntax

Christian Boxdörfer edited this page Apr 8, 2022 · 13 revisions

Normal and wildcard search (FSearch 0.2 and later)

Operators

Operator Keyword Description
AND space, AND, && An AND operator combines two search terms. Only results that match both search terms are returned.
OR OR, || An OR operator combines two search terms. Results that match one or both search terms are returned.
NOT NOT, ! A NOT operator negates the following search term.
Grouping (, ) Search terms can be surrounded by parentheses to group them together.

Wildcards

TODO

Escaping

Sequence Description Example
Double quotes Everything in between "" is treated literally (like spaces) "/home/user/my folder" *.pdf/home/user/my folder AND *.pdf
Backslash \ escapes the following character (like space or ") /home/user/my\ folder \"quote\".txt/home/user/my folder AND "quote".txt

Regular expression search

TODO

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