Wildcard characters
When you search, you can use the asterisk operator * and ? to search for partial words. The question mark (?) can be replaced by any character. The operator (*) can be replaced with any or no characters.
'c?r' matches car
and 'f*' matches food, fast, furious, etc.
'*plane' matches plane, airplane, etc.
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Boolean operators
You can also use the boolean operators 'and', 'or' and 'not'.
'john and mariah' matches all files with the words 'john' and 'mariah'.
'not robert' matches all files that do not contain the word 'robert'.
'john or robert or mariah' matches all files that have the words 'john', 'robert' and 'mariah'.
'john or (robert and mariah)' matches files with the word 'john' or the words 'robert' and 'mariah'.
You can also combine the boolean operators with the wildcard characters.
'jo* or (rob* and maria?)'
'john and robert or maria?'
'f* and p* and m*'
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