Regular expressions support for file search

[ebleble]

Hi,

 

Does Alfred support regular expressions file search like find command in Unix?

I mean something like

or

 

 

In Unix, I can simply search with following commands

find . -name "*somephrase*.pdf"

find . -name "*.pdf"

 

This method doesn't work in Alfred. Is there a chance it will support  regular expression in the future?

I would like to avoid clicking to create workflows just to achieve simple file search with regular expressions.

 

 

Edited April 13 by ebleble

[vitor]

Welcome @ebleble,

 

Alfred uses the Spotlight metadata. You don’t need glob patterns (regular expressions are similar but distinct) and can just type somephrase pdf or pdf.

[ebleble]

Let's assume I would like to find all the AVI files with following pattern in their name

MVI_{DIGIT}{DIGIT}4{DIGIT}.AVI

 

Examples:

MVI_3747.AVI
MVI_4048.AVI
MVI_3046.AVI
MVI_3047.AVI

 

With terminal, following command works as expected

find . -name "MVI_??4?.AVI"

 

How can I find those files with Alfred?

[vitor]

What you seem to be looking for is fuzzy finding. FZF is a community workflow for that.