Call Everything with search pattern as parameter?

[pstein]

Can I call Everything with a pattern as search parameter?

Assume I want to search for pattern "aaa bbb" then I need something like

D:\tools\Everything\everything.exe -search "aaa bbb"

But this doesn't work.

Is it possible otherwise?

Thank you
Peter

[void]

Please escape double quotes with triple double quotes:
D:\tools\Everything\everything.exe -search """"aaa bbb""""

Note: you will need to use an additional double quote to escape the space.

[happer66]

Or try something like this

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C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "aaa "bbb

I know it looks odd, but it should work.

[aussieboykie]

How do I pass a quoted search string to Everything?

As expected, everything -s "expense claims\" gives me:

Everything1.jpg (7.89 KiB) Viewed 4938 times

This is what I want to achieve (showing a hand coded example):

Everything2.jpg (8.13 KiB) Viewed 4938 times

I had hoped that triple quotes would do the trick but everything -s """expense claims\""" gives me an Unable to open file list: error.

[aussieboykie]

Oops. Already answered here.