Find in files - find extensionless files

dada a

I want to use find in files function.
I’m using:
* !*.*
and it yields no results.

Using as an example 2 files, one .txt and one extensionless, using * !*.txt replaces in the extensionless file while skipping the .txt, but when I try to replace the extension at the end with an * to reach all extensions, it finds nothing. Is there a way to achieve exclude all files with extensions?

dada a

Right now the only way I see is listing all the extensions that I don’t want, for example:
* !.txt !.pdf !*.mp3 … and so on

Neil Schipper

@dada-a I don’t have a solution to your exact problem, but here’s a pretty good workaround if you’re not dealing with a deeply nested directory tree:

turn on a Project Panel (under View)
add a project
“Add Files…” and use Windows file open dialog to: sort by file type, select all files with no extension, Open

Now you can perform Find in Projects

PeterJones

@dada-a said in Find in files - find extensionless files:

Is there a way to achieve exclude all files with extensions?

What you want to exclude are all files that have at least one character after the extension. But *.* matches zero-or-more characters after the extension, so !*.* excludes all files, with or without extension.

If you want to guarantee that it excludes only files with at least one character after the extension, use !*.?*, where the ? matches one character, and the * after it matches zero or more characters in the extension.

So the full Filters setting of *.* !*.?* (or !*.?* if you’re on Notepad++ v7.8.7 or later) will only match files that have no extension.

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#find-in-files-tab