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

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.
 
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).
 
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
 
sorry, i don't get it. i've ticked that, left filename blank but it just brings up everything in the folder.
 
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.
 
tommo123 said:
thank but like the other it seems to need some kind of filename to search for first
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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."
 
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