On 8 Feb 2026, at 8:35, Bill Kochman wrote: > Hello Rich and company, > > Well, I suppose I should already know how to do this after all of these years > using BBEdit, but I don’t. I googled for the right answer to my question, but > apparently, the info Google provides is outdated in some way. I couldn’t find > an answer in the grep cheat sheet either. > > My question is very simple. > > I have a folder containing 741 BBEdit files. The vast majority of the files > have the following three hashtags in a vertical row: > > #Scriptures\n#BibleStudy\n#BibleVerses\n > > However, there are a small number of files which do NOT have those hashtags. > So exactly how do I find and list just those files, and NOT all of the other > files which DO contain those hashtags? > > Using the above line, please show me exactly what I should put in the > multi-file search window, and what options need to be enabled.
The "Exclude Matches" option in the Multi-File Search window is provided for this purpose. R. -- Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6A511830-2928-4503-ACC1-2128ED3743B7%40barebones.com.
