Searching within a specific folder

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#1

I’m trying to use find/replace within a folder, using the Find in Project feature. I’ve tried various combinations to specify the folder, eg:
/folder/
/sitename/folder/
C:/wamp64/www/sitename/folder/
file:///C:/wamp64/www/sitename/folder/
I’ve also tried with backward slashes and with asterisks at the beginning and end of the path etc…

Does anyone know how to specify the ‘File/directory pattern’ - for folder names? (Specifying file names works with asterisks.) I would be grateful for any suggestions.

#2

Does anyone know how to do this or if it’s possible?

‘File/directory pattern’ is displayed in the filter field and works for files. Obviously it looks as if it will work for folders but I don’t know if it’s not yet implemented or if I just don’t know the format (sample attempts in previous message). The search is very convenient and extremely fast. It would be useful to be able to specify the folder.

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#3

The file/directory pattern use glob patterns and are relative to the project root folder. So using *.js would search only js files. use css/* to search in the css folder and use css/** to search in the css folder and it’s subfolders.

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#4

Tlhanks Patrick - that’s really helpful.

I’ve just been doing some quick experimenting and the search is very powerful - eg it’s easy to specify files of a certain type within folders starting with certain characters etc. - and it’s really quick.