Question about File Searching

[Zenoth]

Hey,

Is it possible to search for files that ends with a specific letter ?

In Windows XP that is, if it matters to mention.

Important to note that I am not asking for how to search for file formats, but simple a letter that's in the file name.

For example, I have "x" amount of files ending with say ... the letter m. Now, how would I do a search so to "sort" all of the files ending with that specific letter in their name ? Is it possible ?

I know I could search for complete names or file formats, but I don't know if it'd be possible to ask the OS to search the way I need it to. Or else it'd take me days, literally, to find all those files.

P.S/ If it'd be possible but only with a third party utility/tool, then please let me know as well.

Thanks.

 

[Fardringle]

Go to Start>Search>For Files and Folders. If you want to search for all text files that have a name ending with "m", enter *m.txt in the "All or part of the file name" box. You can replace the letter "m" with any other letter or character (or combination of characters) that you want to search for, and you can replace .txt with any other file extension that you want to use. If you want to search for all file names that end with "m" and that have any file exension, use *m.* instead. This will give you a listing of all files on the computer that meet the search parameters. If you just want to search a specific folder or group of folders, change the "Look In:" option in the search parameters to the folder you want to use instead of Local Disk (or Local Hard Drives).

If you want to do this in a Command Prompt, follow these instructions instead:

Open a Command Prompt. Go to the directory you want to search, then type "dir *m.txt" or "dir *m.*" and press Enter.

If you want to create a text file of the search results, use this command: "dir *m.txt >> filelist.txt" or "dir *m.* >> filelist.txt". You can of course replace filelist.txt with any name you want to use for the results file.

NOTE: remove the quotes from the commands listed here when typing them into the Command Prompt window. I just put the quotes in to make it easier to identify what should be typed. 🙂


edit: The forum font makes it kind of hard to see, but the * character in the bolded search options listed above is the Asterisk symbol.