Search Files & Folders

Looks for files and folders on the user's machine. This command can contain other commands that you insert into this command for further processing. Inner commands will be called for each found files. The full name of the found files will be stored in the specified macro.

Description

Optionally, you may add comments here describing the purpose of this element.

Filename or Wildcard

Specify the name of the file or folder that you wish to find. Also, you use wildcards for searching.

myapp.exe
proc.*

Variable name

The name of the variable to which the full name of the found file(s) will be written. There are the following result variables:

Variable name	Description
[var]	The found file.
[var]dir	The directory where the file was found.

Example, if you specified variable name as curfile then

#curfiledir# - the folder of the file.

Recursive Search

Check this checkbox to enable the recursive search in all subdirectories.

Seek Files Only

Check this checkbox to use the specified wildcard for seeking the files only.

Search All Files

Check this checkbox if you want to find all files meeting the filename criteria. Otherwise, the search is stopped when the first file is found.

Where Search

By default, the command looks for files on all hard drives on user's machine. You can limit the search by entering a start point here. This will limit the search to the drive/folder entered (and its subfolders if the Recursive Search setting is checked).

c:\temp
#winpath#
#progfiles#