Wildcards? about fsearch HOT 3 CLOSED

@Swedland, which version do you use, i.e. did you build FSearch from source or did you use the PPA, AUR target or the deb file?

Both * and ? are supported wildcards and should work as expected in normal search mode. But also 1605 should match files or folders like Backup 160522 without any wildcards:

Are you sure all the necessary folders are indexed?

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Thanks for the reply,
Yes, the HOME-folder are in the list.

I tested once again with "1605" and I got all Backup-folders with name "Backup 160522", "Backup 160525" and so on. That feels ok but why didn't '*1605' working?

When I tested the FSearch it was installed the minute before but in the lower right corner it had the number of indexed files, 17300 items.
Perhaps I never did test only '1605' without the astrix because I knew that it was a "Backup " infront of 1605? Still, I thought "*1605" should also find the folders and NOT only '1605'.

Happy to know more about this...

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I tested once again with "1605" and I got all Backup-folders with name "Backup 160522", "Backup 160525" and so on. That feels ok but why didn't '*1605' working?

Because that's not how wildcards are working. *1605 won't match Backup 160522 in Everything Search either.

• *1605 matches everything which ends with 1605
• 1605* matches everything which starts with 1605
• *1605* matches everything which contains 1605

So obviously with *1605 you can't find Backup 160522, because it doesn't end with 1605 but with 160522. You'd need to use *1605* or just 1605.

If you don't use * at all the default search method is a sub string search, i.e. just typing 1605 is the same as *1605*. Both will match all files or folders which contain 1605.

Edit: I just saw that Everything has a option to configure that behavior. That's probably where your confusion comes from.

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/options/#match_whole_filename_when_using_wildcards

Maybe I'll add the same option in the future. Added to TODO list.

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