Find

You can use various filters to narrow the set of files you are operating on:

• Directory: The "Base Directory" input field shows the directory where the search will begin.
• Subdirectories: By default the "include subdirectories" checkbox is selected and files from each subdirectory will be taken into consideration. Click the underlined "Each" label if you want to limit the set of subdirectories included. If you specify some pattern here, only files with an ancestor directory whose name matches that pattern can be found. Unless of couse you tick the "Exclude Matching Directories" checkbox, in which case files from matching directories (and their subdirectories) will be excluded.
• File Name Pattern: You may use simple file name patterns such as "*.txt" or "*.html, *.htm" to specifiy the files you want to work with. You can pick from the list or type directyl into the box if the pattern you need is not available. If you click the "Save Pattern" button a freshly added pattern will permanently be included in the list, otherwise it will only be available for this session.
  Simple patterns are not case sensitive. If you want to use full regular expressions for the file name pattern, tick the checkbox below the input field.
• Modification Date: You can also look for files of a particular age. Click the underlined "Restrict modification date" label to specify how old the files must be at least or at most.
• Content Pattern: You can immediately filter for files that contain a certain text. This text filter uses regular expressions by default (unselect the checkbox to disable).
  Select the "Ignore Case" checkbox, if you do not care whether characters are upper case or lower case. This works for both, regular expressions and ordinary text.
  Select the "Exclude matching files" checkbox to find those files that do not contain the search pattern.
  The "Wrap Lines" checkbox only concerns the way text is displayed in the text area. It does not alter the interpretation of the search text itself.

Import or pick

• Single Selection: You can pick a single file from the "Base Directory" file browser instead of a directoy. This will "find" just the selected file and allows you to quickly carry on.
• Drag and Drop: You can pull files and folders from a file browser (e.g. Windows Explorer) onto the FAR application window. Folders will be resolved to all file contained, subfolders included.
• Import: Eventually you can import a list of files via the "File" menu. The import file must contain absolute pathes, on path per line (UTF-8 encoded).

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