Using Wildcard Searches for Files and Folders
As of version 8 of TEM, you can use the find Inspectors to search for files and folders with wildcard searches:
Q: names of find folders "system*" of windows folder
A: system
A: system32
This expression returns all folders in the Windows folder that have "system" in their name. You can also sum over your search to find the number of relevant folders:
Q: number of names of find folders "*86*" of folder "C:\windows\winsxs"
A: 5050
This expression found 23 files with "86" in the name. Here, the asterisks are wild card characters that stand for any set of characters (including null), and will find files named "86skidoo", "my86th" and "last86".
You can also use the "?" wild card which matches a single character and is thus more restrictive:
Q: number of names of find folders "?86*" of folder "C:\windows\winsxs"
A: 4325
You can use multiple wild cards to expand your search:
Q: number of find folders "win*" of find folders "system*" of windows folder
A: 3
You can search for the existence of any file name at all using a naked asterisk:
Q: number of names of find files "*" of find folders "X86*" of find folders "win*"
of windows folder
A: 51
This expression finds all the files in the root c: drive.
Q: find files "*" of folder "c:\"
A: "AUTOEXEC.BAT" "" "" "" ""
A: "boot.ini" "" "" "" ""
A: "CONFIG.SYS" "" "" "" ""
A: "IO.SYS" "" "" "" ""
A: "MSDOS.SYS" "" "" "" ""
A: "NTDETECT.COM" "" "" "" ""
A: "ntldr" "" "" "" ""
A: "pagefile.sys" "" "" "" ""
A: "test.txt" "" "" "" ""