How do I search for files with no extensions?

[El Capitan De Los Snuggles!]

I saw a thread on this but the info didn't help. Thought I'd reopen
the case. The problem with the last answer is that I don't know the
name of the file. Even if I do know the name of the file searching
with .* doesn't find it. The wild card only looks for files with ANY
extension, not non-existent extensions. I just want to be able to see
all the files on my computer that lack an extension.
Sean

 

[John Jay Smith]

some extensions are superhidden, for example the shortcut files.
There are ways to make them visible.

what exactly are you trying to find?

 

[Richard in AZ]

Change your search to *. That will look for all files and folders without and extension.

:I saw a thread on this but the info didn't help. Thought I'd reopen
: the case. The problem with the last answer is that I don't know the
: name of the file. Even if I do know the name of the file searching
: with .* doesn't find it. The wild card only looks for files with ANY
: extension, not non-existent extensions. I just want to be able to see
: all the files on my computer that lack an extension.
: Sean
:

 

[El Capitan De Los Snuggles!]

That didn't work. It found no files. I'm using a database that
creates temp files with random names and no file extension. The files
are not always in the databases' directory or the temp folder. Any
other suggestions?

 

[Guest]

QC#11674: Files without extensions are not included in search
http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=11674

 

[q_q_anonymous]

I saw a thread on this but the info didn't help. Thought I'd reopen
the case. The problem with the last answer is that I don't know the
name of the file. Even if I do know the name of the file searching
with .* doesn't find it. The wild card only looks for files with ANY
extension, not non-existent extensions. I just want to be able to see
all the files on my computer that lack an extension.
Sean

Download Agent Ransack

now, if you know what you're doing, you can yuse a 'regular expression'

otherwise, I found an easy way to search for all files that have an
extensino of less than 3 characters.

Go top the options Tab, it lets you specify NOT
then search for *.???

Those files with an extension of 2 or 1 letter won't be too many,
shouldn't get in your way

 

[Guest]

Open My Computer click tools/Folder option/view and unclick the "hide file
extension of known files.
Try this I didn't read all your present message
Anyway, in search you don't need to enter the file extensionif you know the
name of the file, it should be enough.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

Open My Computer click tools/Folder option/view and unclick the "hide file
extension of known files.
Try this I didn't read all your present message
Anyway, in search you don't need to enter the file extensionif you know the
name of the file, it should be enough.

no, you haven't understood the OP . Meaning that the OP asked a clever
question, and all the rest of the people that responded were correct
and not crazy.

The OP wanted to search for files with no extension

That is not the same as searching for files where he doesn't know the
extension

 

[Bill Braun]

A brief experiment resulted in a very onerous, ungainly,
unsophisticated, and not very pretty way of finding files without
extensions.

Search for *.* and then sort the result by Type. Look for files of
Type=File.

I created three file in a folder, new_doc.txt, new_doc1, and new_doc2
(latter two with no extension).

After sorting, both files without an extension were clustered together.

Bill B.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

A brief experiment resulted in a very onerous, ungainly,
unsophisticated, and not very pretty way of finding files without
extensions.

Search for *.* and then sort the result by Type. Look for files of
Type=File.

I created three file in a folder, new_doc.txt, new_doc1, and new_doc2
(latter two with no extension).

After sorting, both files without an extension were clustered together.

Bill B.

The method might not be graceful, but the english was, and the method
is effective.

I did a slightly different test on that method.

That method does seem to work across folders and regardless of the
filename . I had sub folders a b and c and files 'r' 'a' and 'd' and
z.txt and b.txt .

As you said, search , sort by type.

It listed the subdirectories (a,b,c) together, *then all the files
(r,a,d) with no extension - those files were in different
directories*(so it worked perfectly), then it listed the rest of the
files.


..\a\
..\b\
..\c\
..\a\r
..\b\a
..\c\d
..\b\z.txt
..\a\b.txt

 

[de Graff]

From a DOS prompt type

dir /s *. /a:-d

This will list all files with no extension. The /a:-d says to ignore
folders.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

From a DOS prompt type

dir /s *. /a:-d

This will list all files with no extension. The /a:-d says to ignore
folders.

beautiful
all the time I spent with DOS and I never tried *.

i'll just add that you don't need the colon, /a-d will do /a:-d .
same.
also, anything /a (including /a-d) displays hidden files too. (which is
fine) , if you don't want hidden you can do /a-h