How to find files containing ███ ?

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

I need to find out all files on my system that have in them rows build from the

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█

sign; so I would need to get search results containing at least

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███

And I would prefer to have this saved in my configuration as a Bookmark. And preferably I would also need eligible files to be indexed, so that such Bookmark would work instantly in the future; which for me would be formats: AHK, BAT, CMD, PS1, REG, TXT, VBS


Overall I expect this to be impossible to achieve with [at lest with one Bookmark and a pre-cashing feature added] because due to plain text encoding issues - because some programs show me in search results files that have rows built from the

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-

sign


So, can anybody help me with this task?

[void]

Please try the following search:

ext:ahk;bat;cmd;ps1;reg;txt;vbs content:███

content:

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Holy eee!

This works - and it took only a dozens of seconds. I cannot believe it is as simple as that. So one again Everything proofs to be a great piece of software


However there is some bug apparently - because I have created 4 TXT test files, with each of them with one of the following content:

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███

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_███

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_███_

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███_

in which the

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_

sign above represent an ordinary pause sign [for the purpose of visualizing the problem]


And now when I use

Bookmarks... > Organize Bookmarks > New > Search > Custom

set to such expression

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ext:ahk;bat;cmd;ps1;reg;txt;vbs content:"███"

then in the main window I get to see files with

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_███

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_███_

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███_

but not that first one with

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███

i.e. that only one which does not have any pause signs. [And yes, for my specific case scenario I literally do need to differentiate between files with literally

█

sign written 3 in times in a row with or without pauses adjusted to such short line built from blocks]

[therube]

So that is a "block" character, rather then a "-" or "_" that is "highlighed"?

So a "Full Block", Unicode Character “█” (U+2588)?
UTF-8 Block Elements


How do you go about getting such a character into a .bat (or otherwise) file?

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Throughout my files / programs I use various block characters and other unusual signs. But for me, after many tests, I cam to a conclusion that this character [U+2588 as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements] is the optimal one to be used for building separation lines and indicators of chapter / titles in my files. In script files I use them as comments, e.g.

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:: █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
:: ███ System Reset ███ message shown before execution ███ 

in a BAT file - which requires it to be saves with UTF-8 encoding


The task at hand was finding multiplication of

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█

and I already did that - thank you. But now I am just reporting what seems to be bug. In that example of mine I can adjust content of files to

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███

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a███

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a███a

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███a

and still when the filtering expression is

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content:"███"

then the first file with only

█

sign / without

a

character in it is not shown in results

[therube]

C:\TMP\BRU\spaces>ES TEST*.txt content:█

C:\TMP\BRU\spaces\test.TXT
C:\TMP\BRU\spaces\test3.TXT

In this case, test3.TXT only contains the character, █ , (& is utf8).


(Likewise, C:\TMP\BRU\spaces>ES TEST*.txt content:"█", works.
Likewise, C:\TMP\BRU\spaces>ES TEST333.txt content:"███", which contains ONLY 3 █, works.)


So it does look to be working on my end.

[void]

Any other search options enabled? (What is checked under the Search menu?)

I am able to find the file that only contains ███

Maybe it's an encoding issue?..
Could you please attach the file that contains only ███

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Any other search options enabled? (What is checked under the Search menu?)

Match Diacritics

Turning it off did not make the issue go away

Could you please attach the file that contains only ███

I have just sent you an e-mail with archive attachement which hold all my test files

[void]

Thank you for sending the txt files.



1.txt in hex:

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882588258825

█ is stored as 88 25 (in hex)

Everything will not match █ inside this file with content:

The file is using Unicode encoding with no BOM.
There's no way for Everything to know the 1.txt file is using Unicode encoding.
Everything will treat the file as ANSI as it is valid ANSI text.



Notepad also opens the 1.txt file as:

ˆ%ˆ%ˆ%

(File is opened as ANSI)



Please store your txt files with a BOM.

-or-

Please try the following search:

binarycontent:█

binarycontent: will try to find text as ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE.
binarycontent:

-or-

If you know the file is using Unicode encoding, please try the following search:

unicodecontent:█

unicodecontent:



2.txt in hex:

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6100882588258825

a is stored as 61 00 (in hex)

Everything treats NULL bytes (00) as invalid ANSI text and will favor Unicode.

Notepad will do the same.
If you open the 2.txt file in Notepad you will see:

a███

(File is opened as Unicode)

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Thank you for this detailed explanation


It seems that the optimal approach would be to add a Bookmark with such Custom field of Search

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ext:ahk;bat;cmd;ps1;reg;txt;vbs binarycontent:"███"

And that is because it is expected for a user to forget about having to create / modify / save every new file with BOM - just in case in future that file will start utilizing the

█

character for a line. And it is also absolutely impossible for a human to not make some sort of mistake somewhere along the line


Overall, as I just tested, the

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binarycontent:

version have found all of the files I had missed back then; I hope

[therube]

Everything treats NULL bytes (00) as invalid ANSI text and will favor Unicode.

How many (opening ?) bytes does Everything inspect when making that determination?

[void]

The whole file.