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Windows search for files ending in jsp

I'm trying to do a windows search to find one of my web directories for any scripting use. However, the search seems to ignore all files ending in .jsp. I was looking for simple words and that didn't work either. Is there a reason Windows ignores these files when searching?

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One answer: FileSeek. It's fast, free and will do exactly what you want. It will search inside files and supports regular expressions and wildcard search.



http://www.binaryfortress.com/fileseek/

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Try searching for * .jsp and see if any files show up.



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You need to find a wildcard that is "*" (without quotes). If you were looking for * .txt, you would get all files ending in .txt, and if you write abc. **, you will get all files starting with abc.

Thus, using wildcards will help you find what you are looking for. Try pressing F1 in the search box (Ctrl + F)

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I suggest you use this command line utility (windows grep kind)

findstr /c:bla /s *.jsp

this will find recursively all the files containing bla

(and highlight matching lines) and ends with jsp

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Windows Search will not search for files that it does not recognize as a known search type. See this Knowledge Base article for a description of the problem and a registry hack to work around it for a specific file type. Note that you will need to do this for every unrecognized file type that you want to add.

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Two possibilities:

  • Folder is not indexed when searching in Windows
  • JSP files are marked as "file properties filter" in Windows search options.

In the Indexing Options control panel, add a folder. In the Advanced section, go to the File Types tab and find JSP. Change the index to "Index File Properties and Contents" or whatever it triggered on your system. You can also add the file type if not already specified.

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Using windows built to search through files for non-standard (popular) file types (nothing but .doc, .txt, etc.) doesn't seem to work.

I am using UltraEdit32 and its find in files utility to do this for JS and ASP.NET types.

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I can offer you StopKa - a desktop search tool; I am not posting the link here (or is it possible?) because it will look like an advertisement - because I am the author - try google for it.

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