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 ███