https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll

Recoll is not finding “suitcase” in “# example.txt”, but it seems to work when i rename the file to “example.txt”

characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences

Solved: characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences, skipped names section

  • ksynwa@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Not really an answer so sorry about but have you considered using a command line tool like ripgrep or silver searcher instead?

    • PuaNani@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      If i cannot figure out how to use recoll better, i will look into those, thank you

  • dandelion@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Did you check the characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences ? Maybe # is among it.