How to search ??_doc.xml file in a specified folder in Finder

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I have a lot of ??_doc.xml files in a folder, it's like:

13_doc.xml
16_doc.xml
87_doc.xml

The filenames are all like two digits with _doc.xml combined together.

I want to search them and have them showed in folder, and when I type ??_doc.xml in the search box, I get nothing.

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Is there anything wrong with my query? What should I type there?

Thanks

Best Answer

The Finder search box does not support wildcards. You can add additional criteria to narrow down your search, though.

  1. Enter _doc in the search field to start a search.
  2. In the bar that appears (showing "Search: This Mac" etc) click the plus sign button all the way to the right.
  3. In the new row that appears, in the first combobox, select Name, then in the next one select Contains, then in the empty text box type _doc (without wildcards or the file extension).
  4. Click the plus sign button all the way to the right of this new row.
  5. In the first combobox of the second row, choose Kind. In the second combobox, choose Other. In the empty text box type xml (without the leading period).

This will narrow down your search to files whose names contain _doc and whose extensions are xml.

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