How to perform a file/folder search with an exclusion pattern?

[zupermario]

for example: search for all ZIP files larger than 1 gigabytes, excluding those containing the word "big".

Thanks!

[tuska]

Hi,

Search with Total Commander

1. Search in separate process... Alt+Shift+F7
2. Tab "General" - Search for: *.zip
3. Tab "General" - Search in: Delete the content of this field if necessary
4. Tab "Advanced" - ☑ File size: > 1 Gbytes
5. Tab "Plugins":
   ☑ Search in plugins | Plugin: tc | Property: fullname | !contains | big
   Remark: ! = NOT
6. Click on Button "Start search"

 
Search with Total Commander using the "Everything" tool - (Tab "General" - field "Search for:")

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ev:ext:zip size:>1GB !big	; Search is carried out in all indexed drives, the "Search in" field is NOT taken into account!
ed:ext:zip size:>1GB !big	; Search is performed up from the current directory (indexing in Everything required)

[zupermario]

Hi,

Search with Total Commander

Thank you very much!

[petermad]

Or use:
2. Search for *.zip|*big*.zip
and skip the plugin search in step 5

[zupermario]

Or use:
2. Search for *.zip|*big*.zip
and skip the plugin search in step 5

So, | is not? Nice!

[petermad]

2zupermario

So, | is not? Nice!

Search for: In this field, you can enter the search mask for the files you want to find. A question mark ? stands for exactly one character, and an asterisk * stands for any number of characters. Multiple search masks can be entered, separated by spaces (see examples below). All masks after the pipe character | will be treated as exclude masks

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander uses the | pipe symbol to separate positive from negative filters, not as a "not" symbol before each filter. So to exclude several file types, only put the pipe symbol once, e.g.
*.zip|*big*.zip *large*.zip