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      05-19-2009
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:25:25 -0700, liketofindoutwhy wrote:

> I have been using for Vista for a while, and sometimes i just want to
> search for a file in the folder whose filename has the word "Stock" in
> it.
>
> So the search result says "No result found". Sometimes I even look at
> one file that says, "Stock news - Intel 2008-11-02.html" and the search
> result says "No found".
>
> Can this be solved? I noticed that I am already setting it to "index"
> this folder to make the search faster. Isn't this as simple as a year 1
> computer science student homework? Just to find all files and show
> files whose filename contain a certain word?


From the command line:

find . -name "*Stock*"

Oh wait, that's how you do it in Linux.
 
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