win8 - any way to search only for files in uppercase?

[tommo123]

googled but results are skewed towards renaming files :|

 

[ninaholic37]

I think you can type this in the Command Prompt:

dir c:\ /s /b | findstr "name"

Where "name" is whatever you're looking for. That might be overkill though.

 

[Cerb]

Windows is fundamentally not case-sensitive, so there will not be a convenient included method. You'll need something like posted above, or 3rd-party GUI search program (I've found AstroGREP to be among the more useful ones).

 

[tommo123]

ninaholic - thanks but it's not a specific name i'm trying to search for. trying to find all uppercase files in a folder of thousands to move elsewhere.

cerb - will try that proggy.

thanks

 

[Binky]

Look up agent ransack.

 

[tommo123]

thanks but it asks for a filename to search for which i can't give it

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

In the Agent Ransack options tab you can specify that you want to search using Regex.

 

[tommo123]

sorry, i don't get it. i've ticked that, left filename blank but it just brings up everything in the folder.

 

[JackMDS]

This App is portable and has Case sensitive option (it has free version too).

http://www.fileseek.ca/Download/

 

[tommo123]

thank but like the other it seems to need some kind of filename to search for first

 

[yinan]

You could probably write something like this in powershell relatively easily. But one of the main problems is that Windows filenames are not case sensitive. You cannot have NEWFILE.TXT and newfile.txt in the same directory, and a check of the existence of NEWFILE.TXT will return true even if the file is displayed as newfile.txt.

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

thank but like the other it seems to need some kind of filename to search for first

Put the regex in the filename, it'll find file that matches the regex. As an example of what can be done, I used "^[A-Z]", which matches all files that start with a capital letter, and was able to distinguish "gps_1123_audio - Copy.mp3" and "GPS_1123_audio.mp3."

 

[tommo123]

yea, had a reply back from agent ransack:

http://qa.mythicsoft.com/11646/flp-pro-is-it-possible-to-search-for-text-in-uppercase